As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
I'm very competitive about puns.
Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.
There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
I am definitively qualitative about work.
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
I have no qualms about very emphatically declaring that I love my country. There is nothing regressive about it. There is nothing saffron about it.
The quarterbacks that win... those are the quarterbacks that are talked about for being great.
I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
I knew nothing about professional comedians when I became a comedian. I was a rabbi. So I had no professional comedians to learn from.
I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad.
The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.
The studio was very nervous about 'Raging Bull.'
When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.
I do rather rejoice when people come up to talk to me about railways.
In place of presidential addresses, stump speeches, or town halls, we have Trump's demagogic mass rallies. In place of the usual jousting between the administration and the press, we have a president who fantasizes on Twitter about physically assaulting CNN.
