My taste in the films I’ve taken as an actor is similar to what I’d do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.

I think for anybody reading the book they’re going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it’s quite hard to shake.

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

We made satires of everything – news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical...

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

If you’ve done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We’re absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we’re not turning into Brunswick. We will remain SRU, but we will...

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don’t have to wear a tie. I think it’s kind of a statement they’re making. I...

I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you’re going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes...

Listening to my regular favourites – Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on – I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It’s a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they’re wheeled on in a...

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in,...

One doesn’t simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave – arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite...

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we’ve downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.

My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: ‘Who am I?’ ‘Who do I belong to?’ But when I was still quite young, I...

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that’s quite common.

I’ve done about four deaths in films now, and I think it’s quite good because then it’s sort of a memorable moment in the film.

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with...

Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing...

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we’re so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We...

The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

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.

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

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.