I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Books are the curse of the human race.

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.

No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.