It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

There is far, far more to being human than any of us can become on our own.

At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

Whaaaaaat is going on?" May whispered out of the corner of her mouth."I'm sort of comforted by the fact that I can't figure it out, " Jack responded.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.

All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.

With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.