I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

What I did, I did without choice.

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

And be very careful at the front, Paul.”Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I think, You should have better taste, then, because I don't really like that song.