You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

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.

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

America is great, because America is free.

The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

I'm the stuff men are made of!

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.