After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

My definition of success is control.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Homecoming's stupid." And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.

The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

If you know Hillary Clinton, you know this is a woman who has never shied away from a fight.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

No man can given anybody his freedom.

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.