And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.

Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

We sing because we can't speak anymore. Dance is an extension of that - we dance because we can't speak anymore.

The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

I am excited for the future of the industry, because we're at that point now where digital is becoming pertinent to release and distribution strategy versus releasing on cable or anywhere else.

When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.

If anything matters, then everything matters.