What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for. You're not always necessarily successful at it, but that's the ambition that you're trying to do.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.