Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]

Usually writers are behind the scenes. Like a lot of people don't know that the cat who created Final Destination is a brother, Jeffrey Reddick.

Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.