I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a. m.
I've always thrown like a girl.
Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but I don't believe that her conviction was for the greater good.
You're miscarrying a baby first thing in the morning. Who wants to hear it? God bless them. It's a very strange life. I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.
I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.
A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in themselves, but artistically, what you're trying to achieve with a film is so very different to what you're trying to achieve with a book, and the way when you write a script is so very different on paper to how it seems on a screen.
Girlfriends are vital. . . Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here. We'll always make time to sit and catch up properly.
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure.
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.