Imtiaz Ali Quotes

I guess I just tend to feel at home wherever I go.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

I have traveled to many places but have no desire to leave New Mexico.

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel; I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things.

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.

I think being biracial is a different experience. I think that, and coming from the U.K., I feel as much white as I do black. And so it's really important for me to address these issues of identity in my work. But also, you know, we're always stronger when we work on, you know, what we have in common. And I love exploring that in my work.

When you're younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting; it's flashy, it's shiny, but I always had this separation between who I was as a person and who I was as a player.

I just like to have one foot in Montana and one foot out.