I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it. . . and a bit of confidence maybe.
As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who cant accept adult responsibility.
I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.
I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of Les Miserables in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho. My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.
If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered. . . I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken. . . I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.
I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be.
Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.