The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

Affirm your life's destiny & purpose to ensure - both are graciously fulfilled.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?

The team is the star, never an individual player.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.