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.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.