It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

Prayer is a phenomenal tool for power, prudence and prosperity.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I love a good romantic comedy.

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.

A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.

anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones.