I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

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

I love a really good storyline.

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.

It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.