But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Making movies is like herding cats.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.

For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.

It's hard when you're missing your family, " Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

Maine election law specifies that anyone who is qualified to access the voter file must keep it confidential. And that is directory language. Making the list available is discretionary under the law.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.