In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we get older, all of us, is to try and do more.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Making movies is like herding cats.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.

For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.

The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.

There is no other formula for a happy life than frequently focusing one's energy and time on the brighter side of life.

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

My heart knows me better than I know myself, so I'm gonna let it do all the talking.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

I think that is why we're seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative of standing up to Washington and fighting for the constitution.