People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making films and finding their own way. It's not like in the States where there are studios and there's an actual infrastructure to it; there's just nothing here. You make it from scratch a lot of the time.
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.
I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.
It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.
Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing. It's so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I'm producing something. I'm being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle.
It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.
Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.
Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.
The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform better. If more coaches took. . . a Golden Rule approach to coaching, treating their players the way they themselves would like to be treated, fewer athletes would drop out of sports in their teens, and more athletes at every level would be happier and more satisfied.
The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.
There's no way to move without making waves.
And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.
You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.
I enjoy doing scenes where I don't wear make-up and I can be raw. I like that. I feel like it's easier to act. When I have to have make-up on, I feel like I'm expected to look a certain way, and then it's harder to act because I'm more self-conscious.
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.
I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you. '
I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.
Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.
