I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

My best feature is my hair.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.

Don’t pray for help

Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

There is a different attitude about, you know, how much differentiation there needs to be between our options and how many choices do I need to have in order to make a choice.