Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

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.

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.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

I live every day as if I can die any moment.

He is trapped underground, suddenly and unexpectedly close to death, but still in control of his fate. "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it, " he says later.

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

I don't understand how poor people think.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

It is a $270 billion cut in medicare

If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.