"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."

“England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.”

Source : "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

“When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.”

“At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.”

Source : Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.110, North Atlantic Books

“You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.”

“If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.”

“I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.”

“... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”

“The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.”