I hate trying to play charming. Thinking about being charming is really tough.

I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen. If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.

I think its really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.

Education has always been very important to me.

I never remember my dreams.

I think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.

No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.

Effective love is rarely efficient.

Perfect people make for boring novels.

Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

You see, I needed to go to Hell.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.