In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God?

We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam.