. . . good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.
I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.
Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.
People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.
I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.
Man can not live by bread alone. . . he must have peanut butter.
Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.