As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

Many men think they're playboys but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser'.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.

Did if feel like jumping off a cliff when he kissed you? I imagine it did.

Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.