I love everything about you that hurts.

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

He was kind. People bothered him. He thought we should be more concerned with the world around us and how our actions would affect things years down the road.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.

Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored.

They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!

Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves.

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.