I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!

We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.

I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.