She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off.

Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.

How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.