“I’m not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.”

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn’t like the film – fair cop. Others, I think, didn’t understand it.

As I get more and more involved in the child’s world with Rocco his son I’m getting interested in making a film for children.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

I think there’s a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It’s not an intellectual process, it’s an instinctive process.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can’t think of anything I’d want to spend my money on.

If somebody has a better idea than me, I’ll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it’s me that takes the credit anyway!

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

I don’t know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.

I still love her. But she’s retarded, too.

The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

I’m single again and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m loving it at the moment. This is what I’ve been missing.

We’re not unique. We’re quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn’t work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they’re sort of larger than life and I think I’m still suffering from that reaction.

I live on a bicycle, I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.

Brad [Pitt], poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that’s what I call a real star.

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can’t spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.

Perfect was sick of being called an “illusion” so it refined itself to “Loving You”. -Glories with you.

You tell me its going to be okay, tell me, is it really what you believe? Or is it a mere illusion you continue to paint for me.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.

I’m suffocating on empty promises and twisted truths. I’m drowning in a bottomless pool of illusion.

Although you stood before me in all your tangible glory, your love evaporated like an illusion melting in my hands.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Sometimes we make the wrong choice, somewhere we deceive ourselves in matters of relationships, creating illusions, we are driven by something real.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.