Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

Being a leader isn't a title, it's a lifestyle and there is no on and off switch.

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

To know her was to love her.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.