Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?