What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.

Crystal skulls are a metaphor that reality is a consciousness hologram through which we experience virtually.

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.

If pain were water, the world would drown

My heart, far too sensitivefor this human world.My heart, so easily wounded, sheds rose tears of compassion.

When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play an even more important role.

Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write.

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.