I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.