I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

It takes heart to battle great challenges, great faith to be victorious over them.

Three good men dead, to save a hedge knight's foot.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

Is this true or only clever?

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

You can't find the soul with a scalpel.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta.

I am very lucky because everything that I do is exciting to me. It's always new.