Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Making movies is like herding cats.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.

For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.

The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

Sometimes you have to look past a person’s mistakes to see God’s presence.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

Jesus will brush aside your inabilities.

You want to be around guys that you share the same goal with and guys who are thirsty and ready to hunt and get victories.

There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

Time for some thrillin' heroics.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.