I cheated once on a spelling test. I didn't know how to spell period. I leaned over the desk and looked at someone else's paper. I was probably ten or something like that.
I'm certainly afraid of not being able to write for some reason. I guess I've had spells of not necessarily writer's block, but something like that. I find that pretty terrifying.
There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.
Buy one pair of knickers or underpants from Marks & Spencer. Then you'll truly be like a Brit!
Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy.
If I am to be remembered for anything I have done in this profession, I would like it to be for the four films in which I directed Spencer Tracy.
People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.'
I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.
I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere.
Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.
I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'
The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one where our senior politicians were spirited and original and possibly even good at what they do.
I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with lawyers.
