I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.

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.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.