Quotes

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

There's nobody who loves being around actors working more than David Mamet, especially actors bringing his tremendous dialogue to life. I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave.

I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.

At the end of 'Afterlife' - hmm, how do I do this without spoilers - Skye took a very strange journey that crossed the boundary between life and death. And now, for her, that boundary is permanently blurred.

The main song I listened to with the 'Firebird' books was 'Breath of Life' by Florence + the Machine.

I'd be a rubbish policewoman in real life.

None of us knows what a good or bad person is. In real life we're all brilliant and a bit rubbish.

It's difficult being young; but holding on to a sense of identity is really important in life.

The entertainment industry is not always easy. I really needed to decide I can do this, and I will do this for the rest of my life.

There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being a citizen, and that way is very close to death. It's very close to the loss of your life.

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.

How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.

The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal.

I loved 'Life is Beautiful' and action films are great, like 'Die Hard.' My favourite is the mob film - 'Goodfellas,' 'The Godfather,' 'Once Upon a Time In America,' anything with Robert De Niro in it.

If you meet a girl who says: 'Darling, what do you mean? Of course I wear suspenders. I've worn them all my life. I think tights are for old people,' then know this: she's desperate to have kids, she wants you and her to live in the same house as her mum, she never wants to go out and she just wants to lie on your chest for the next 15 years.