Sacha Dhawan Quotes

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

I miss being in my home country; here, I'm always a foreigner. America is, of course, built of people who are not from here. But going home, even just landing at Arlanda, the Stockholm airport, I think, "This is where I'm from. These people are my people."

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

I'm not too interested in books about India.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

I find it very lucky to be an Indian and living in India.

I firmly believe that Tagore should be taught in schools all over India.

The thing about India is that even if the economic backgrounds are different, the cultural background is the same. Somebody who is working as a tailor will also tie a black thread around his kid's wrist; so will somebody in Bollywood. That's the fun of being Indian.

For me, psychologically, I am very much an Indian.

I did have a chance to box for Pakistan, but I've lived here all my life, gone to school; all my coaches and everyone's here, and I feel English.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. Barcelona is my home because both the club and the people here have given me everything, but I won't stop being Argentine.

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.