I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

When you have the right intention, the right opportunity will open the door.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

Cut that pizza into six slices instead of eight, I ain't that hungry.