I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools, ” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.

Good luck has its storms.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.