And we have the same colour eyes. When I look into his, I feel I'm looking into myself.

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.

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

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.

The only god visible to my eyes is "My Mother

Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

We are all God's children. But world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers are undoubtedly God's choicest children.