As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

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.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.