Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other’s, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
We’re all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.
Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give.
Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you have all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don’t.
Life is generally pretty damn amazing if you let it be.
The Night Manager doesn’t exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don’t have particularly political or national-political affiliations.
Just because you’re good in something doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily be good in something else. You just try and chase opportunities that you fall in love with or that inspire you and keep doing the work.
One of the great flaws that we all share is that we think everyone else is cooler, everyone else is sexier; everyone else has all the answers. That was me too.
We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.
Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.
The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.
I don’t think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.
I grew up watching ‘Superman.’ As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn’t diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
The thing about playing gods, whether you’re playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.
The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.
I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.
With any role, you’re extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.
Within us there is the capacity of being anyone or anything.