Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

What I did, I did without choice.

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

Authenticity is what makes a relatable person believable. It is what makes the relatability sustainable. Anyone can fake relatability for a time, but authenticity is what makes it real.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

He said he don't like em boney, he want something he can grab

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Despair often breeds disease.