"South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor."

“I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.”

“There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.”

“We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.”

Source : "Matthew Rhys: from Patagonia with love" by Hannah Booth, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2011.

“I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.”

“Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.”

“The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.”

“If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.”

“People may think I'm wildly obnoxious.”

Source : "If Comedy Central’s ‘Idiotsitter’ is Half as Funny As Talking to Its Creators, It Could Be the Funniest Show on TV". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. January 14, 2016.