It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

No matter how much I think, no matter how much I try, I can't fill this void of loneliness in my heart.

You will never know anyone more intimately than yourself. Love yourself and be good to yourself.

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

Just one thing I know for sure, chicks dig jerks.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

I love DJing, and I love rocking out.

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.