Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Making movies is like herding cats.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.

For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.

The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

My pillows are dreaming, not me.With my eyes closed I only try to feel how they dream.

Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful story, a person that you and I might truly encounter.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career.

I think that film is still an artform and it doesn't really matter if you're using a digital camera or a film camera.