The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

I prefer to die fighting than living defeated

There are no failures. There are only experiences and our reactions to them.

I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority, and that's what makes me feel sane and not removed from the realities of my world.

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Tedium is the bane of immortality.

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

What I've learned is you treat women right.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.