Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

The damaged loves the damaged.

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.