Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.

I'm not afraid of anything other than spiritual annihilation. Where your soul is sucked into the void.

Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.

The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.

Growing older does not automatically mean growing kinder or wiser.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

I love to stalk. I love to stalk you real, real good. I took your name home after our date and we had the best Google session of my life.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

Take chances make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'