I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.

You can’t trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can’t trust you.

When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.

Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

Communism, ” I observed, “is a pile of wank.

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.

The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.

I try to create homes, not houses.

Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character.

Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.