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“The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.”
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“All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.”
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“I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that man is an inescapable part of all nature, that its welfare is his welfare, that to survive, he cannot continue acting and regarding himself as a spectator looking on from somewhere outside.”
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“I think that every man is afraid of his wife.”
Source : Source: www.elle.com
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“I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.”
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“I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.”
