I’ve been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

I discovered very early that it wasn’t quite enough for me to imitate people.

The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

In some Old Testament books, it’s very evident that an editor has been at work. That’s quite all right. It’s part of the process.

You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don’t have to gird your loins, if that’s not quite the...

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn’t look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that’s completely typical of Seattle....

Shoes are a good starting point. I’ve become quite fussy about them! A patent pair of Sonia Rykiel oxfords have become invaluable.

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn’t drown out...

My parents didn’t know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of...

I’m quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I’m very family-oriented. It’s a big priority...

The bad guys probably get the better lines, don’t they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good.

There are two types of people in the world, the bright lights and the quite shadows.

I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their...

I’ve played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It’s something quite extraordinary.

I’ve gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine, so fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

I’m able to leave Don Draper at work. I’m quite dissimilar from him in real life.

The thing that everyone remembers about ‘Bambi’ is that moment. ‘The Lion King,’ took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede – I...

Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can...

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast,...

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don’t quite know how I’m going to do them, because I haven’t lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure...

I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I’d actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that...

I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn’t matter what the genre; nowadays, it’s so much harder than it ever was.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It’s quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It’s kind of a happy...

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

It’s quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data’s going to flow back and forth, we don’t quite understand yet.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

The weirdest I’ve felt was my first job ever. It was an editorial in London. They made me take my underwear off and cover myself with a shower curtain. It was almost see-through, so I...

When I’m making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don’t let the band learn it too well.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren’t singing quite like I was.

Confronting a stadium audience, you can’t see the whites of their eyes. It’s just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can’t see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree...

You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It’s quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You’d be surprised.

To me, it feels like ‘The Doctor’ has to have a long coat, and that’s something imprinted on me from childhood, because he always did. And there’s something heroic in a flapping coat, but at...

And there are no stars and that you’re never really sure who’s doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It’s supposed to be quite elusive.

My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it’s borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.