I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

Don’t waste time on employment, discover yourself today

I’m planting a tree to remind me to be open and kindhearted.

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

Howʹd you get here?ʺ I asked. She winked. ʺYouʹre not the only ones who can steal cars. Or, in my case, get people to ‘willinglyʹ lend them.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.