Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.

[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.

Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place

Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.

I can be a subversive element.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

I tried to blink back the tears that just kept coming. Eventually, I gave up and let my sight be obscured.

The punishment for rape should be castration.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

There is no armor like perseverance.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.