There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.

I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.