We watch over those we love.

Earthly life is merely the infancy of our soul. What comes after physical death is, I imagine, like returning home.

I would like to believe that you reunite with the people you love the most.

I am so curious. We had my son christened because there may be a god but, equally, my partner is a science teacher, so I am also completely open to the possibility that nothing happens.

Most people, these days, they don’t even believe in reincarnation. They’d say, you only go around once.

There are so many people I’ve loved working with, but you’ve got to get the right person for the project.

Be true to yourself. Find your own voice and be true to that voice. Never take a bad idea, but never turn down a good idea. And, of course, have final cut. And be true to the ideas.

To me, the greatest master that ever walked the earth. Maybe some could be as great, but none could be greater.

Transcendental Meditation, it’s obviously the most important thing to do day in and day out. Transcending is the key to a better and better life, and this idea is catching on more and more in the world.

An idea comes. Scripts are organised ideas. When you read a script, it comes alive in your head. And that aliveness in the head is like seeing it and hearing it and knowing it. Or if an idea comes from outside, boom, you catch it in your brain and you see it and you hear it, and you know it. You sometimes fall in love with these things. All you do in cinema is translate those ideas. They talk to you, so you just stay true to the idea and translate it as good as you can.