It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!

That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.

I don't like being best man at a wedding 'cause there's no way to prove it.

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate.