But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
STEPHEN FRYBut happiness is no respecter of persons.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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