It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

To become a better you, dare to take calculated risks and overcome your limitations. Your scars can make you a star, but you have to decide.

The devil is a professional in destroying lives, but the problem is that people themselves allow him to destroy their lives

Father of fathers!

How can it be wrong? Love picks the right path, not the one of least resistance.

Never argue at the dinner table for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

I don't want anyone to do anything except come run, party, dance, eat, and hang with us. Running isn't about making people buy stuff. Running should be free, man.

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.