Quotes About Author

I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

I was excited when I first got the call, when I heard BBC Four were making a biography and they were interested in me being a part of it.

My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

More than just a sobering history lesson, 'Angry Birds' is a beautiful game. It's absolutely lovely.

I do not support legislation that would ban birth control.

I am very shy by nature and I won't even have told people about my birthday, had I not been an actor.

Well, I spent 23 years in politics, and bits of that were fun.

'Aiyyaa' was a bizarre film.

If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.

I have ended up on so many weird Men's Rights Twitter accounts filled with weird anime. I don't know. It's so bizarre to me that people can think that way, and so I feel like I can decode them or figure it out. But you can end up so grossed out.

What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.

I like the gunplay of 'Blackout.' If 'Warzone' had 'Blackout's gunplay... ah, it would be the most perfect battle royale.

The sets were incredible. You would walk in at 6 in the morning, and we were really living in 'Blade Runner.'

The last thing I wanted to do was 'Battlestar Galactica.' I thought, 'I've done sci-fi. I did 'Blade Runner.' I don't have to do anything more.'

I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

I go to movies. I blend in.

It's an honor and a blessing to be part of 'R.B.I. Baseball.'

The jobs I've gotten are usually the ones where I go in cold or blind in terms of what they're after and I pitch my take on it.

British period drama is always seen as kind of perfect and beautiful and lovely, but I don't think subcultures have been shone a light on like 'Peaky Blinders' has done.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.