Am I athletic? In my dreams.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

I always try to look for the best in most places.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.

On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague.

I'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time.