There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

I was always Luke because I had blond hair, and my mate Stu was Han. Han was the cool one. The Jedi were never the cool ones.

But I’m not one to read a book backwards.

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.