My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.

We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.

You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.

That's progress: when we prove things wrong.

What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.

I'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

I function because I am on drugs.