Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

If you wish to be successful, you have be willing to invest the time, energy, and money necessary to associate with the right people.

...we have something they want. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. We should be thankful that we know better.

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

There is no gain without struggle.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.