I think it's really difficult for women to be involved with sportsmen that travel, or men to be involved with men or women, whoever it may be.
It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.
Marriage will not change your spouse. It will not make him or her more mature, more loyal to you, or better at housework.
... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.
There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.
The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
There are going to be ups and downs in any relationship. It's a team.
Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.
On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.
Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.
My impression is that staying together as a couple does not correspond to the challenges themselves, but whether the very idea of breaking up is an option on the table. If it is, then some people take it. If it's not, then they will keep working at it. You must know people who were terribly suited who make it work. And there are couples who seem perfectly suited that break up. It's a mystery to everyone.
I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
It's not easy having a partnership in this business.
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
People often say that if you have to work hard at a marriage, then it's not naturally good, but I think that's totally wrong.
