Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

Art is a sense of magic.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

All that you touchYou Change.All that you ChangeChanges you.The only lasting truthis Change.Godis Change.

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.