The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.

Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.

Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.

Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

I often wonder if my imagination is one of God’s choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity.

Makeup can give you the confidence to...change your job, move abroad, get a pay raise.

I always remember liking school.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

I've got a great wife, a great life.