I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

I'm planting my love in the garden of my hope.

Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.

In the marathon of life negativity is never as light-footed as a dreamer's sprint.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

Marketing is every bit of contact your company has with anyone in the outside world. Every bit of contact. That means a lot of marketing opportunities. It does not mean investing a lot of money.

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

Have a vision. Communicate it clearly. Pick the right people and put them in the right jobs.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

And then I am going to rattle the stars.