Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three....

We owe our future generations a nation full of united people.

The inner struggle against one’s own weaknesses is the central drama of life.

The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.Flavia de Luce

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.