I love a really good storyline.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

I don’t want you to hate me or even to not like me, but I am committed to helping you think and grow and succeed

This is my war, and I don't know what side I'm on.

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

He's a male chauvinistic piglet.

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.

I just wanna live until I die.

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.