PSH - I am genuinely shocked, saddened and speechless. A truly wonderful man, with a magical touch. My hero. Thoughts are with his family

I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.

If anything changes, I'll just take it in stride. For now, I can still walk down the street and quite happily not get noticed.

There's so many great, fantastic compliments I need to give that girl. Three words isn't enough.

I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.

In fact I've been rather blessed with roles in my career that really alter my actual look. I've never looked the same in any film I've done.

I keep in touch with what's real.

I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

Handel was a man of the world but Bach was a world of a man.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

I don't write about my life in my column.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

Real action is in silent moments.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.