It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

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.

Footfalls echo in the memorydown the passage we did not taketowards the door we never openedinto the rose garden. My words echothus, in your mind

There have been great champions in every generation.

Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

A small handgun makes any TV remote control.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

We do not judge, we believe that we are all beautiful intelligent expressions of GOD here on this planet.

China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.