I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people.

Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.

I'm such a romantic at heart.

Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.

There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls were separated by phantoms and delusions

My uniform [in Star Wars] was cool. Not much else I can think of at the moment. You know, you don't know the enormity of these kinds of films until well after you're done.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.

We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.