Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

In oratory the will must predominate.

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

Some music really does suck!

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs.

My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

Art is doing something you really believe in.