The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.

I was against the war in Iraq.The record shows that I'm right. When I did an interview with Howard Stern.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you have to get to that moment, and that takes supreme focus.