Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

My best feature is my hair.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.

Love is a key ingredient for creativity.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive

[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.