The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

Catching up with the end result is never final, until it is, upon death.

Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected!

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.