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.

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 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 don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

Art is a self-replicating force.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old, I am dangerous.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.