If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

More isnt always better, Linus. Sometimes its just more.

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.

Forever turned out to be too long.

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'

I'd say that kids working on sets, even if it's Bambi, need to be allowed to be kids, even if they're working, not become little adults - that to me can be distorting to kids as an experience.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

I'm not much of a challenge here in the dark.

Writing is also an art.

Somebody's got to win this war, right?

Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a year later.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.