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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.


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SALMAN RUSHDIE American literature has always been immigrant.
SALMAN RUSHDIE I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Thanks will be a worthless word until a person tells it from heart. When a person thanks someone wit...
SALMAN AZIZ People see what they want to see. People say what they like to say. People hear what they always try...
SALMAN AZIZ We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don’t worth the innocence. ...
SALMAN AZIZ When you are in entertainment business, you can’t be you until you are in off-screen. You have to ...
SALMAN AZIZ People change just in a blink! You won’t get any explanation for that. They change in front of you...
SALMAN AZIZ Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
SALMAN RUSHDIE I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the f...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to de...
SALMAN RUSHDIE This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildin...
SALMAN RUSHDIE If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
SALMAN RUSHDIE A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in ret...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Our lives teach us who we are.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that ex...
SALMAN RUSHDIE How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
SALMAN RUSHDIE A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape...
SALMAN RUSHDIE India considers Saudi Arabia a center of stability in the region. The security and stability of the ...
SALMAN KHURSHID What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second,...
SALMAN RUSHDIE If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance numbe...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I think that we live in a very timid age, and a part of our timidity arises from our unwillingness t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
SALMAN RUSHDIE It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now und...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside re...
SALMAN RUSHDIE It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war...
SALMAN RUSHDIE And now, as if to finish things off, the Himalayan winter is setting in, and the greatest calamity o...
SALMAN RUSHDIE As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn...
SALMAN RUSHDIE What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist
SALMAN RUSHDIE Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You'v...
SALMAN RUSHDIE A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shap...
SALMAN RUSHDIE A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, sha...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
SALMAN RUSHDIE If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy
SALMAN RUSHDIE Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.
SALMAN ADITYA