Making movies is like herding cats.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.

For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.

The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Let each person decide his or her fate.

Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.