A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.

I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead, ' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!'

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that.

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Some men are born posthumously.

She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute.

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.