Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. – Stephen Fry
Ive never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, theres just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have. – Stephen Fry
Its rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether its Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends. – Stephen Fry
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. – Stephen Fry
Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like Primer or 12 Monkeys, Looper is not about time travel. Its about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way. – Rian Johnson