Hany Abu-Assad was sitting next to me, and his film 'Paradise Now' had won the Golden Globe. He said to me at the Globes, 'Paradise now, talk to you later.' [laughs] I gave him a big hug for that.

And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

Don’t laugh at me. Is it proper etiquette for an angel to laugh at someone in a state of Penzance?Penzance? Are you a pirate?

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

A split second can ruin or boost the sequence.

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.

There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.