They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

The more I love the person, the more rejection I recieved.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

I think the future for solar energy is bright.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag.

And you’re not afraid of it ending?” “Sure I am. But I’d rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.

In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.