He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

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.

Don’t carry your ideas to the grave untouched.

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

His eyes never blinked or wavered from mine, encompassing me in a field of control.

I think in black.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.

Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.