When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy.

Groucho Marx

For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Oscar Wilde

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Sam Ewig

As a soldier who has spent a quarter of his life in the study of the science of arms, let me tell you I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare thoroughly and efficiently for war, you get war.

Frederick B. Maurice

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Leo Tolstoy

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

Matthew Macfadyen

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Aristotle

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience... We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications... In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D Eisenhower, Farewell Ra

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Julie Christie