I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

What I did, I did without choice.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

Light, Amie, can be blinding when it first comes on. Lasers can be deadly, even when streaming from benevolence. We need perspective. We need it to seem wiser than us, tested and tempered by time.

Speak kindly to with adult women as you would to your mother.

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians

Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.

Every act is a visual judgement.

How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts.