There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

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.

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.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.

I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

Maturity is produced through relationships and community.

I'm not sure it's possible to stay in Hawaii. It's kind of impractical.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Light and liberty go together.