Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

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.

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

Fury reigns down on those who ignore in the wisdom of fear itself.

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

When you're working hard and doing all you can to achieve your goals, anything that can give you an edge is powerful and will streamline your path to success.

The world knew you before you knew the world.

'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.