A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

A good piece of art raises questions.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Only the legs that run are those that really have muscles!

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

‏@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology.

My kids and my wife make me feel vulnerable.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him.

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?

The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.