One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.
"The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you have this conflict both on a domestic level between a couple in a difficult situation but also this bigger conflict of science versus religion, so it's a really fascinating project.
I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and adulation and she actually loved Dickens essentially for who he was. So I think he felt like she was someone he could be himself with.
I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.
Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.
I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.
[Code Black] doesn't look like any other CBS show. . . and I don't mean that as any sort of judgment. It's just unbelievably unique, it's gorgeous, and it looks like a film.
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
. . . self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.