Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.
Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.
If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.
I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.