If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.

I actually have a good relationship with critics. You have to identify everything that you like and don't like that you see, and that's your job.

Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high-concept is a challenge.

I'm drawn to more than I'm allowed to do or asked to do, or probably should do. My whole career has been comedy, of a kind. I guess I've always existed in that world.

Comedy is king. It has to be.

Believing in the project to a certain extent always makes things more affordable.

I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.

The tragedy of love is in its ending, the blessing—everything else. No love ever deserves to end.

Trust is dangerous.

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

Stange how nearsighted being invisible can make you" - said Dumbledore

Look around less, imagine more.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

Nature abhors a garden.