Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.