I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.

Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.

Love is strong as death jealousy is cruel as the grave.

All I can go on is my own value system.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.