If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

Try your best, before any rest. Life gets its beauty from the best.

My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.