So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

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.

There is no place like the beach... where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

Truth is a big concept.

Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.