If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.

I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.

I'm happy in retirement.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.