I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.
Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.
I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.
You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.
A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.
If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
