My first film was Ram Gopal Varma's 'Company.' I was paid Rs 3 lakhs for it.

All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

My kind of work is very intense. The trouble with me is that I completely fling myself into it. I get giddy. I get terrible crushes on jobs.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

I love acting in Tamil cinema. I have decided quite consciously to do at least one good film every year in Tamil.

Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.

Stan got the message. He allowed the chicken assignations. What did that make him? A chicken pimp. Better than dead.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.