“If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures.”

The genre has got quite serious now.

Sadly, that’s not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

We’re all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn – unless you get offered something like Twilight when you’re 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.

If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you’d take it. I would have killed for it.

Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys – audiences are not going to buy it anymore.

I’m kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.

The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them completely.

I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.

I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time.