I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.
I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.
I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.
We really need to move to a bit of a post-partisan world where we actually start solving problems and stop kind of living in a country where the political leaders act like half the country is entirely wrong about everything they believe and increasingly try to pit American against American.
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
I believe we all have the right as private citizens to endorse candidates and participate in the political process.
I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.
Your political views should be your political views. I believe in business being non-partisan.
More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.
I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
Reggaeton is something else - it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don't believe will ever die.
Generally, we tend to believe that royalty is only for mainstream Hindi commercial cinema music and maybe some popular ghazal singer or pop singer but we never think that classical music is played at so many places.
Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.
There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote on it.
I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.
Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.
Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.
UKIP believe that immigration can be an extremely positive thing. But it has to be controlled.
