I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

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.

When you find that no one is loving you, be kind and give them your love.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do.

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

I'd like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don't hesitate to say so - which they and I cherish.