You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

concepts means with structure so build structures in ur life.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power

Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper.

Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.

But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland.

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.