Quotes

In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.

Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

If people don't think about their finances and get involved with building a financial trajectory early in life, it's kind of a substantial problem.

Maintaining a routine with my sleeping habits, even on weekends, has been a constant even when other aspects of life are hectic.

Most nights of the week I make it a point to get home in time to have dinner with my wife. It's a simple routine to maintain my work-life balance.

I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.

The movie 'Prema Geethangal' brought out the campus life in the 1980s whereas 'Ennalum Sharat' speaks from the 2017 perspective.

Competitive spirit is a driving force that keeps life going with a thrill.

I may have crossed three-fourths of my life and I felt it would be worth jotting down my life in movies spanning decades.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.

If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

I didn't want to be looked at as a below-the-poverty-line kid. But now I think, that trailer is where I got the ambition. The anger. If we had a better life, I wouldn't be here. That trailer made me.

I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.