I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980.