Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

I think the hardest obstacles, actually, are probably ones I've put on myself. I push myself really hard, and I think that's why I've been able to accomplish certain things.

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

If my body needs something, I need to give it that.

At some point, we all have to let go.

Somehow your heart still knows me.

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.

You do not have to feel good to do good.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.