Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

People are never free of trying to be content.

If you would be pungent, be brief.

I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance.