I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God

Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.