The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

I have my priorities and I know my purpose. I do not Praise God because of my pain but I praise Him because of what the pain is producing.

Have you ever experienced human love?”“Yes. Once.”Regret shadowed his face. “Then why would you be willing to repeat it?”“What we learn is worth more than what we lose.

The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.

I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

You have to fight for respect. In life, even cashiers at the supermarket, if they're women, they're differently treated. It's a reality. The reality is not nice; it's not pretty.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.

Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

You can't climb a smooth mountain