When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.

To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.

It’s like my whole life my left ring finger has been lacking something, and finally it feels complete.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.

Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

When you live with beautiful things you stimulate your mind, you enjoy life a little bit more.

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust