I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Making movies is like herding cats.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.

The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

Much of the world in search of knowledge and fulfillment ignores God!

An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.

So long as victory can be attained,   stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

My life is quite a blissful adventure because my thoughts are constantly working in my favor. I hope yours are not working against you?

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.

Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.

My heart is a garden tired with autumn.