This, I suppose, is part of being human, learning from our losses how better to appreciate what is left in their wake.

Do you want the truth or fiction?

You remember it your way and I'll remember it mine.

I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I think about poverty and culture and traffic and pollution and crime...

Many cultures accept the faulty nature of memory. They know even the photograph only gets it halfway right. They believe there is only one way to bring the dead back to life, story.

If I drag it up from the bottom of the river, if I dig deep into that muddy floor and pull it up, even if I get most of it wrong, is it mine to tell?

Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .

Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon

People would have to learn to deal with old monsters again. Stay in their houses. Shutter their windows.

The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters.

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.

I lift weights and I run, thats what I do.