Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.

I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

Peace means nothing without freedom.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.

Either you run the life

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover, and as abdomen is to consort, and as middle is to petite amie.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.