There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

They say crying makes the heart lighter

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

One doesn’t question a miracle.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

I cannot see you anymore. Your ego spans higher than the Himalayas.” Sutara

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan...believe...act!

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

I'm a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.

Working because you want to, not because you have to is financial freedom.

Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.