We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about their lives having minor problems.

One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.'

Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he's flawed. Superman's flaw is kryptonite, and that's it. He can make time go backwards, for God's sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there's a bit of humanity there.

I find it easier to approach things from a critical angle that otherwise may seem daunting because I'm used to being scared.

I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.

I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it.

I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.

The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing.

Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you.

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.

I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of work, and being prepared to embrace the challenge of the new thing is something I want in my life until the day it's over.

I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

The more I'm committed to finding a way to genuinely be immersed in someone else's life, the more enjoyment there is in it. I've never been interested in smoke and mirrors and cutting corners. I'd rather just do it for real.

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision.

I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'

Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.