You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!

I'm obviously first and foremost a British filmmaker on a global scale, but when it comes to narrowing it down, I really feel like my voice is in the Midlands and outside of London.

Bullying and violence that exists in someone can also be inherent in a nation without us knowing it.

I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one

The violence at the end is about personal torture.

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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