If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I love a really good storyline.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.