When I’m inside the character, I feel like I’m a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it’s me, I find that disappointing.
You’re only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it’s true or not, it gives you the strength.
I’m a massive fan of Sunshine. Oh my God, I love that film.
There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.
It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it’s about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!
I’ve got huge tubs full of stuff that I can sell on eBay. If there are people out there that are interested, I want them to come my way and buy my jackets and hats and scripts that are signed by everybody.
My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.
Vibration is always good. Sitting on top of the washing machine thats going.
So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it’s essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.
Every now and then we’d meet up and reminisce about the characters. At the beginning, shortly after we started shooting, someone sent me some clips put together on youtube. It was the first time I’d seen something like that. “The intimate moments of Mulder and Scully.”
I always felt I wasn’t completely American and I wasn’t completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.
If I chose to have a nanny, I’d be able to pay to have a nanny – a lot of women don’t have that opportunity. I don’t feel like I’m a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don’t have.
Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don’t like showing their passports. It’s becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn’t mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There’s so much fear in America and control.
I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.
The world had little patience or concern for innocence.
Is that the ultimate paradox of life, she wondered, that the universe should become less clear with age?
That is not the case. We do not blame words for being insufficient to express new ideas.
We can’t heal our broken system by sitting in judgment. Within each of us lies the seeds of intolerance and hate. If we simply declare others wrong and ourselves right, we deepen the divide.