You'd be surprised how much free time I have.

Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.

You cannot hide the soul.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.