On Darjeeling, I was on set every day and I acted as the second unit director and a producer on that film. I was there throughout the whole process. On Moonrise Kingdom, I showed up for one day.

The more you travel, the better you get at it.

In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid.

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is On The Road, does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.

You're beautiful to me, Jamie, ” I said softly, at last. “So beautiful, you break my heart.

God himself is referring to Jesus as light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom

Remember You Attract What You Think, Keep Your Thoughts Focus On What You Want and You’ll Be Amazed..

Hope is but the dream of those that wake.

I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!

If you wish to find Love, don't look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.

What's to keep somebody from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel?

We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?