I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.

The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world.

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Donald Trump is communicating with people in America who've felt like they have not been listened to.

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.