Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels.
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
I'm a huge fan of The Sopranos, and suddenly, you find yourself going one-to-one with this guy who you've been watching for years, watching every flicker in his eye and every detail on his face.
We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.
I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and he said yeah, and then suddenly I had all these people who were happy to come along. We got a little bit of money from Scottish Screen to pay for it. I got so many favors because I knew people in the business. I was in a remarkably good position. I got so many favors from people. I got the Monty Python technical people.
I was amazed to go Oscar and win it. It was fantastic getting up on the stage there and looking down. I thought, "That guy looks like Steve Martin, and that guy's like Arnold Schwarzenegger. " But it was Steve Martin, and it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they have this terrible kind of conveyor belt backstage - literally - where they take you to this big hangar where the world's press are gathered, and they make you stand on a stage, and they introduce you.
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
Life is not at the mercy of matter.