If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.

I never want to make the kind of film whose impact ends when the audience leaves the cinema.

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege.

Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.

The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.