If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

What makes you different is the exact thing that makes you irreplaceable.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don’t belong on our streets.

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

I went far and now I see that the only one I needed was me.

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.