Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth

Im still betting on you. - Cinna.

There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.