Gurinder Chadha Quotes

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

A pig is a pig no matter whose pigpen it's in.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

Stray cattle roam every lane and alley, but we are building cow shelters and trying to resolve the problem.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.

I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.

I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.

I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as a revolving infirmary of injured wildlife being nursed by my sister the aspiring vet.

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.

I'm animal obsessed! I basically have a farm in my house.

In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.