My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it’s loosely based on my father’s childhood in an orphanage.

The ‘Mahabharata’ is the best story ever. It makes you believe that impossible things can be made possible. There is magical realism

I actually have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly – so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.

I’m always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that’s off stage. People know when it’s fake.

A thing that many young fellows don’t seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

I was never so naïve or foolish to think that if you merely believe in something it happens. You must struggle for it.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

The power of accurate observation…is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

If you’re having your authentic self, you have no competition.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

He who walks straight rarely falls.