So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Making movies is like herding cats.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.

For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.

The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.

You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

I dated the same girl all through high school.

Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop.