Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

The seed of our love will always cube within the wonder of infinite.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.

Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

True abundance isn't based on our net worth, it's based on our self-worth.

Don't just parent your kids, develop them.

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.