A beginning is the end of something, always.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It's always coldest before the warm.

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

I try to nap through as much of it as possible. I didn't even know about my Christmas movie until this February.

The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have a pulse on what's important today.

I don't have any children, but if I had a baby, I would have to name it, so I would get a baby-naming book. Or I would invite somebody over who had a cast on.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

I ate everything - a lot of pizza, bags of chips and boxes of cookies. Now I love chicken, that's all I eat.