There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glor….

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested..

As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases..

There is so much crap in the world, both in show and other businesses, that I try to be vulnerable myself, in the hopes that there is some truth I ca….

In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there was no resistance to it. When they ….

You always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already had for people that ar….

We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right..

The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again..

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be ….

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innoce….

There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be ….

Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do..

I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall vividly the high lev….

I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me..

Better not to work on things that you're not in love with..

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you..

I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing..

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own..

If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million different interpretations of the material ….

I've made a career making stuff that nobody sees, so anything that I can do to help make something that people are going to enjoy and want to see ove….

I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don'….