You either are a good director or you're not.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

A good piece of art raises questions.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

If you lose one battle, don’t give up. Get up again, you have a war to win.

Science in its attempt to unravel the mysteries of the Universe, Has discovered the ultimate reality that we are all One.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.