"The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less."

"I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it."

"The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it."

"If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England."

"When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a unyielding truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good."

"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."