Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!

Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.

Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.

That's the problem, we do get used to things.

Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.