Youth is wasted on the young.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

Science has very definite faith components, and most religions don't stick to faith. They venture out into making predictions about our physical world. They don't just say there's something that is completely unconnected to us. They say actually it affects a lot. And when they do that, they merge.

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.