I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

Is the game plan you are currently running the most direct path to your destiny?

Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team.

In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

Women are fully capable of doing everything.

Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.