Things are so much global and Americanised.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

To become a distinguished entrepreneur, you need to have an undeniable, unquestionable and unmovable passion for your vision.

Maths is at only one remove from magic.

I’ve been going through my own personal hell.

Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events

When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures