I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.
There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.
I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold. "
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor.
"The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i. e. Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace, meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has. "
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.