It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

While the individual contributions provide the “building block” of creativity

Be as thou wast wont to be.See as thou wast wont to see.

He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.

'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.