You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.

When we set up a goal for ourselves our body starts to produce inner energy independently

Don't always cherish a past memory, Do something today, that you will never forget !!

On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now.

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

She is such a health food nut she thinks a grape is wine in pill form.

Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.

Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.