To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry.

I always wanted to design for films.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally.

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

Work with whatever tool you may have at your disposal, and you shall find better tool as you go ahead.

Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life.

'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own heart.

Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won’t hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.

Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.