History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Life is beautiful but it’s also brief. It doesn’t matter how long you live. What matters is how well you live.

Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

The decision you will take today has the power to redefine your past and redesign your future.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

I personally believe that the solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do

You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.

I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.