I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.

The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus.

When you understand that faith is God’s muscle at your disposal, moving mountains doesn’t seem so extraordinary.

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.