It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

I think CGI is interesting but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that, they should balance themselves by doing a role as a yoga teacher.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.

Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!

When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it.

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.

Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.