I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

I guess a lot of things happen still.

Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it.

Just two words: a masterpiece.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people.

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