If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

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.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.

Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

[I made in army] all sorts of dumb things, but it did teach me a lot about the silk-screen process.

Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.