I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!

Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.