In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.

A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

I wasn't ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.