Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

When I meet a couple I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time or how loyal they are because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end.' Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time with television and jet travel everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

Even when my parents were together they both had to travel and work and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way it wasn't a normal family life.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers people able to put together the right information at the right time think critically about it and make important choices wisely.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters not how we left it.