It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to mind how I react to situations. Not saying people who do not have children don't, but in my life and how I fight against doing the things that have positive impact in my life...I think I would find it easier not to practice the principles did I not have children.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.