We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

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.

A free man does not do what must be done, but what should be done.

Your mind is the key to opening the door of opportunity.

Our stomachs live in towns, " said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.

Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.