'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.
'Socialism' became this weird household word partially because right-wingers call Obama a socialist, which he is the farthest from.
We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.
I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.
The unicorns happened because I legitimately enjoy unicorns; as a kid, one of my favorite movies was called 'The Last Unicorn.'
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.
I used to get called 'Ferrari' when I was a kid because I was always running everywhere.
There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.
I love Tina Fey because she acts and she writes and she's hilarious and does a lot of different things.
I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems.
We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.
Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.
No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.
There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.