I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.

I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

Uncertainty. Vulnerability. Death. Hard truths have a secret power over us. We’d rather ignore them.

Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

Victory is very, very sweet. It tastes better than any dessert you've ever had.

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.