It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.