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I'm a little smarter than most.
Unkindness is quite a major sin.
Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.
Films are fun, but life is much richer.
Western Europeans are not having any babies.
It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.
When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.
My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.
If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes.
I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.
If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.
I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.
A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.
People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.
I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.
I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.
Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up!
Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.
If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.
Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.
I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective.
How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script?
With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.
I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with.
I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.
To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.
There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold.
The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.
I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.
I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.
Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.
I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.
I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.
Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.
There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.
Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.
I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating.
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.
I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.
Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.