I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.

I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord.

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.