I can't always be making "British films". Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Vampires moved with inhuman grace - the fae moved as if life were a dance, and only they knew the steps.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

But in the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.

If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success

It's always nice to start off with a good result.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.