I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Courage to dare, Strength to act.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Your energy of love is so powerful that it can heal anything, including your future.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

You must use force against terrorism.