The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given.

The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given.

A mathematician either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in its beauty as well. I don't think that's something that you learn at school. I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?