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

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

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.

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.

This is one secret in living with the loved one. That is, it doesn't try to change the other party.

You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Never doubt or question the power of love or one woman with a shovel.

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment.

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.