I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Together, life can bloom into something unimaginable!

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

I told Pat I want to be him for Halloween. I almost got hit and I told Pat I should stop teasing him.