The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.
'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.
I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.
I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .
Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.
And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Jaxton couldn't get his mind to settle on one thought, as he stared at the ground. Roman was here, after all these years. He was just a few steps away from him, talking and flirting with Thayer, as if the last six years had been nothing. Where had he...
O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives h...
History is boring, unless you see it from the right perspective. perspective is important. Corn growing in a field appears orderless, till one turns the corner and sees the rows line up. a pixelized photo is unrecognizable, till one zooms out. All th...
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed an...
