I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household and that is my family's faith.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that he had not wished to provoke the British as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

Even when you have doubts take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting then I realised it was me.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

When I first left Iran at the age of 13 Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs wants dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I was in college and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time it seemed the thing I really wanted to do production design just wasn't available in the U.K. so I turned to music.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.

Recently I was in Bernalda my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I was a sickly baby and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say the third time's a charm because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.

I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5 000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland Germany Austria Slovenia Croatia Bosnia Montenegro Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.