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" When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things. "

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" Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. "

" If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes. "

" I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish. "

" Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic. "

" Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil. "

" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

" I'm a little smarter than most. "

" I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that. "

" Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment. "

" Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. "

" Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created. "

" When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question. "

" The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story. "

" In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us. "

" The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer. "

" 'Shogun' was a mini-series, so even though it went on television, we filmed it like a movie. "

" To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion. "

" I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating. "

" Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making. "

" I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society. "

" Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen. "

" If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard. "

" When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in. "

" When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response. "

" People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy. "

" The universe starts off with the Big Bang theory, and the first thing that emerged from the Big Bang is essentially hydrogen and then helium. And that's what combusts in stars. Finally, stars implode, and they build heavier elements out of that. And those heavier elements are reconstituted in the heart of other stars, eventually. "

" Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed. "

" Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. "

" I hate being out of work! "