Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Nathaniel P. Willis

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

Sir Winston Churchill

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Walter Savage Landor

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

Charles Kuralt

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Eliza Haywood

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

John Ruskin

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.

Simon Kinberg

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

David Miliband

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Terry Pratchett