I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.

You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point?

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself.

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.

I am the King of biting off more than I can chew.