Maxim Gorky

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.