All Quotes

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another. ”

We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed. ”

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds. ”

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again. ”

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins. ”

I'm mostly vegetarian. ”

I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play. ”

The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis. ”

Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.' ”

It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling. ”