GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.

We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

I have a short attention span.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake.

We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, based on personal taste and the areas I have worked in, it is not necessarily true for others.

I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

Why do you all push us around?

Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax.

It is only God who can satisfy the soul.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs.

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.

Your largest fear carries your greatest growth.

Clean air and clean water are absolute top priorities when we talk about responsible energy development; however, the final rule issued by the Obama administration does nothing to further protect our resources.

I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a physical presence than anything else. You don't get to really know her on the inside.

I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.

Stupid is as stupid does