I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

To strengthen the connection between your conscious and subconscious, is to gain access to a map and compass, as you travel through parallel worlds.

Because we are human. We adapt, we adjust, and we think too damn much.

It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

You can't deepen the European Union against the wishes of the European countries.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.