Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

Love as the moon loves the night.Love as much as you can.Love as long as you can.Love as long as you live.Live only as long as you can love.

Water is always working, reorganizing the land.

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.

Heartbeat, why do you skip when my baby's lips meet mine?

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

PSG's project is to dream bigger, but if you buy Messi, you don't dream bigger - you are bigger!