An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.

Blessings come into the areas of a person’s life, where he is absolutely obedient to God.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

Life is one indivisible whole.

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.

Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.