With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

I die hard but am not afraid to go.

Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.