The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

Every great story deserves a great ending

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

If a machine can convincingly imitate humanity—can persuade a human being of its kinship—then what makes it inhuman? What, after all, is human thought but a series of electrical impulses?

No matter what happens or what we go through, there is always a miracle waiting for us. The miracle is you.

...You, you look -- bien -- exactly what you were, a high-ranking British officer, used to unwavering obedience and with the air of a Greek god, gazing down on us mere mortals.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.