I dont think I could do a superhero movie. Im just not really that type of guy.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

I don't talk about my friends behind their back.

I write constantly about everything.

That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.

There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

All of your life you have been told that God created you. I come now to tell you this: You are creating God.

The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.