I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

When did you throw yourselves away?

We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. Thats the only disadvantage.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.