If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then.'

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

You can’t absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation.

As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.