Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.

Evangelism has always been the heartbeat for our ministry

Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

Perhaps all pleasure in only relief

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.