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.

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.

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

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.

Stress often comes from speed. So slow down, be simple, enjoy the profound beauty of the little flowers.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.