I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

I have a short attention span.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, "Gosh, do I want to be on a series?"