I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard.

I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

It seemed so much safer and more comfortable to live in the lives of other people - to observe their joys and sorrows with detachment as if one were watching a film or a play.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.

I can go on and on. In the Appalachians. I fed the poorest part of this nation for years coming up at Christmas.