Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.