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Quotes by English Authors
"Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one."
"Cents are the most universally used interval measure."
"The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table."
"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"
"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields."
"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."
"I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it."
"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."
"Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream."
"Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made?"
"It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work."
"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."
"A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work."
"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
"I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song."
"I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies."
"Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult."
"There is a great deal of human nature in man."
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
"Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world."
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
"At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet."
"I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another."
"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
"You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended."
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