I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and loc...
I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.
When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing...
Professor Lupin: [Harry's turned up to visit him after the battle in the woods] I saw you coming. [points to Marauder's Map] Professor Lupin: I've looked worse, believe me.
Rogue: [tracing the passage along a map] Niagra Falls... up the Canadian Rockies, and then... it's only a few hundred miles to Anchorage. Rogue's Boyfriend: Won't it be kinda cold? Rogue: Well, that's the point, stupid, otherwise it wouldn't be an ad...
I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to ...
As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they are actors or writers or producers or directors, and they will tell you that they'd love to play a Bond baddie. I can go anywhere in the ...
I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.
President Johnson offered the middle of the road.
That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations
When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.
Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.
I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.
Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
Follow the yellow brick road.
The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.
The roughest roads often lead to the top.
Kim: I'm the horniest motherfucker on the road!
Failure is a fatality that carves the road to success.
Build the roads and the jobs follow.
