The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.