Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.