Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

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.

Time will take everything away from life, so why are we not giving something away with time?

I'm gonna take you right here on this table, Scar, so every time you're sitting here working, all you'll be able to think about is coming apart on my mouth.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.

I do not have the right to vote in Germany. From a Polish perspective, I say: it would be good if Ms. Merkel were reelected.

We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

With all due respect to Taylor Lautner and his 18-pack abs, my werewolf is going to be 100 times cooler!

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.