modeling

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 degree away from 212 degrees.

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste _ romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism _ use to it terminate misogyny _ use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

Make movies my friend _ make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

The secrets of the kitchen were revealed to you in stages, on a need-to-know basis, just like the secrets of womanhood. You started wearing bras; you started handling the pressure cooker for lentils. You went from wearing skirts and half saris to wearing full saris, and at about the same time you got to make the rice-batter crepes called dosas for everyone__ tiffin. You did not get told the secret ratio of spices for the house-made sambar curry powder until you came of marriageable age. And to truly have a womanly figure, you had to eat, to be voluptuously full of food. This, of course, was in stark contrast to what was considered womanly or desirable in the West, especially when I started modeling. To look good in Western clothes you had to be extremely thin. Prior to this, I never thought about my weight except to think it wasn__ ever enough. Then, with modeling, I started depending on my looks to feed myself (though my profession didn__ allow me to actually eat very much). When I started hosting food shows, my career went from fashion to food, from not eating to really eating a lot, to put it mildly. Only this time the opposing demands of having to eat all this food and still look good by Western standards of beauty were off the charts. This tug-of-war was something I would struggle with for most of a decade.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

What must it be like for a woman to live with power over men rivaled only by God for the first third of her life, build her identity over her looks, only to feel it slip away as time tumbles by? Feel the shift in how people treat her, as though getting old is a contagious affliction?

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

The female brain itself is a highly intuitive emotion-processing machine, which when put to practice in the progress of the society, would do much more than any man can with all his analytical perspectives.

O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.