In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of..

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?.

The fact in acting, you can tap into your darkest moments in life to your lightest moments. And people will watch it, and appreciate it, and even eng….

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't tu….

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors..

I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to ….

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you..

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy..

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science..

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more pe….

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know..

The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in….

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church..

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and a….

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding..

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them b….

In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throa….

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being..

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do..

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - t….