It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.
I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.
I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.
The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.
The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'
