I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

You should never wear anything you can't afford to lose.

Bullying is wrong. It is not okay to bully others back because they bullied you.We learned our lesson with Don the Goat

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

Cultural creatives take a stand for a more spiritualized, personalized, and integrated culture.

Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived