Sergei Bodrov Jr

"No one ever knows if they're shooting their debut or their epilogue." Sergei Bodrov Jr

Alan Ruck

"The first time I ever saw [Ferris Bueller's Day Off] I was mortified. I was like, well, you know, I'm going to have to learn to do something else because this may not work out." Alan Ruck

Fab Moretti

“To us, in our story, he became kind of the good guy and a representative of feeling awkward and incapable of assimilating into a society. .. like many of us have felt before, you know?” Fabrizio Moretti

Vikram Seth

“I sometimes seem to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.” Vikram Seth

Stephen Malkmus

"I'm done with the extra cable channels, the Juggalos and Tila Tequila and Martin Sheen's son. I just can't take it anymore". Stephen Malkmus

Hayao Miyazaki

"My process is thinking... thinking... and thinking. If you have a better way, please let me know." Hayao Miyazaki

Mike Leigh

 "Films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody

else's life." Mike Leigh

Joey Ramone

"I've always enjoyed my life. I enjoyed my life when I had nothing ... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. I've never worried about what I've had." Joey Ramone.

Anthony Browne



"Children are more than capable of coping with all kinds of stories; it's adults who are threatened by the darkness in children's books. If we insist on telling children that everything in the garden is lovely, we're doing them a disservice." Anthony Browne

Todd Solondz

"Who'd play me on screen? It would be a great challenge for George Clooney". Todd Solondz

Timothy Spall

"It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them." Timothy Spall

Michael Sheen

"I have an obsessive fear of breaking the rules – I'm much better at understanding them. I'd like to think that if I do ever break the law I'll do it with panache and élan." Michael Sheen

Roald Dahl

"The line between roaring with laughter and crying because it’s a disaster is a very, very fine line." Roald Dahl

Sam Riley

"I’m working myself into a moody corner." Sam Riley

Daniel Auteuil

"I've turned down roles out of superstition because they touched on my neuroses and I didn't want to have to deal with that." Daniel Auteuil

Peter Carey

"I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book." Peter Carey

Larry David

"I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood." Larry David

Daniel Day Lewis

"I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling; I like it a lot." Daniel Day-Lewis

David Remnick

"The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy." David Remnick

Aidan Moffat

"Despite what you may learn about me from some of the songs on the album, I'm actually much closer to the jolly fat man stereotype than you might guess. At least that’s what I’m telling myself." Aidan Moffat