X-Men films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.

I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows?

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

I'm afraid I go through the same thing all the time.