I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.

I'm not Tom Cruise. I don't have to look that good. I'm always going to have a problem because I'm thought of as someone edgy, but I'm not. I'm a cupcake.

Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.

There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.

I've done a lot of video games and stuff, and I'm getting better and better at it. I don't have a prejudice about it being a different medium.

"Tut tut child " said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral