Chess is a meritocracy.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

I believe sarcasm is the passive form of rudeness and should not be tolerated in the Body of Christ.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.