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.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

-to me, the future doesn't seem real. It's just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don't have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at eight hundred miles per hour.

I didn't want to remember...yet in remembering, it dawned on me - finally - just how far down God had reached to free me.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply.

I was never into smart college boy music.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

When I was in grade school I was always the guy that got 20 or 18 points. Even back then, I would lead my team in scoring.