I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that you would never otherwise experience. To give the audience a real feeling of what maybe a certain kind of warfare would be like I thought was great.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.