Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

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.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

I definitely like being in bands with other women because it's just, I don't know, it's just better.

There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!

As an actor if you're working you're usually in three places, you're either prepping something, you're shooting something, or you're post on something or promoting something.

It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.

We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

It was a very different Republican Party in 2013. And so I think particularly the House Republicans are more confrontational, less willing to compromise even than the Republican class of '94.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.