I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

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.

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.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.

When you are not full of the Holy Spirit, you easily cower in fear and lack a stand on truth

Seek to know thy soul.

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'

You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.

How do you know, Dan? You were so young when they died. Do you really remember them?" "Not in my mind," Dan replied, gazing at the passing scenery. "But everyplace else.

A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.