I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

Your body's dying...pay no attention

The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.

Here's an interesting figure: 43 percent of the incoming congressional freshmen are millionaires. The other 57 percent are Democrats.

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.

Elections should be about making the people a part of the development journey. That is when India will move ahead.

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

Do what you think is right and apologize later.