All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.