I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.