What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

I'd love to do a play a year, if I'm honest, but it depends what comes up. But I do love theatre and it's very different from TV and film, not better or worse.

The bigger the words the weaker the voice.

The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing.

I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

It's no good operating on eyes if your eyes are asleep.

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

My name is very specific to my family. I'm very proud of being Nigerian. I understand that most people can't pronounce it, but that's OK.