"I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be."

"I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it."

"It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

"I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope."

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."

"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."

"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory."