Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates.

It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.

You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.

I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

Put your past into context, live the first day of your best life.

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.