You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.

There is time for everything

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.

Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?

Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.