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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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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 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’.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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