“Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.” — Toni Collette Quote

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

I wish I had more patience.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

I wouldn't play glamour for glamour.

I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn't do it, I think I would wither and die.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

Referendums are designed to get round parliamentary government, and people only demand referendums when they think they can't get a majority in parliament. Mussolini was the most brilliant practitioner of referendums.

David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.