Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

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.

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

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.

Reality blithely ignores the lies we tell ourselves about it.

Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want.

Authors have to help each other out. It isn't a competition

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster.