I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Some people handle sweets better.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

Obama is not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.

Nothing but your choices define your true intelligence.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.