Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.

As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents and we just go out and audition for them.

The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

Forney in Where the Heart Is has more fans than any other character Ive played.

X-Files wasnt a big show in England.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

Be brave. Be kind. Be simple. Above all, be crazy with love.

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you...

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.