In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I love a really good storyline.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

Jason’s heart lifted when he saw Nico di Angelo on the front lines with the Greeks, slashing his way through a crowd of two-headed men.

The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.

The thickest sweats produce the sweetest life. A hard work surely brings unheard happiness. Dig up your gold.

Let's be private... I am different character and DeYtH is different as character.

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.

You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.