A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

My production team doesn't like not knowing what anything is going to look like, but creatively, that's fun.

Five years later I still wake up screaming for him to run

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting