It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.