"The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better."

"If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?"

"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win."

"There will be no politics, no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects."

"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

"Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination."