I do enjoy working with writers.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

Isn't it beautiful when you just stand there right in your track and watch something so amazing, so heart-warming, that you lose track of time and then don't know what to do from there onwards?

A mother's love is the morning sunshine that always enlightens our way.

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point.

There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.

The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.

The brain has not explained the mind fully.