The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

You get what you're good enough to take.

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile.

I believe in blood, sweat and tears.

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.