Sometimes beauty can be a trap.

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

Ultimately love is self-approval.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

There are those who see a problem and there are those who will not give up until they find a solution - finding a solution is what the Full Stop Foundation is about