I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead, ' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!'

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that.

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.

Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.

Joy is not in things it is in us.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.