We all need a firm sense of identity.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

Being alone is very difficult.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

Disparage no book, for it is also a part of the world.

I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick.

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.