My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.
As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.
I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.
Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.
However many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made,. . . you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love.
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK,. . . It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.
I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.