We were below WELFARE. We begged from PEOPLE on welfare. My father TRIED to REPAIR our shoes with PIECES of bicycle tires.

'Air' is what the world looks LIKE: An inconvenient mashup of human POLITICS and divine GEOGRAPHY. We leave BITS and pieces of ourselves and our history in EVERY place we encounter.

I stopped buying Sunday PAPERS about 15 YEARS ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard NEWS comes from so MANY other channels, was opinion pieces. You're BETTER off spending the money on a good novel.

I've never worn costume jewelry in my life. It's really very self-defeating. Why should a MAN BUY a woman real jewelry when she WEARS false PIECES?

Thaw with her gentle PERSUASION is more POWERFUL than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other BREAKS into PIECES.

There's a STYLE to doing period PIECES, and you can't do a WESTERN without UNDERSTANDING 'My Darling Clementine.'

To me acting is LIKE a jigsaw PUZZLE. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the PIECES are blue. Out of this you have to create a HUMAN being and PUT it together.

Accidents happen, WHETHER they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they WALK, every day, SOMEONE reminds them of their loss.

I don't know why I GET CAST in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a FACE for period, that I LOOK like someone from 1920.

When I started PAINTING 17 years ago, I never IMAGINED that anyone WOULD look at my work or BUY my pieces. But now I do about 14 exhibitions each year.

The shock of the WAY I MIX PATTERNS and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke NEW ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more MODERN way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

A director MAKES only one movie in his LIFE. Then he BREAKS it into PIECES and makes it again.

I try to make PIECES that are DURABLE. One of the reasons that I WORK in STEEL is durability.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them AROUND some big board. I actually CARE about these FICTITIOUS people.