“Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.”

“beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.”

“Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end, life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.”

“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

“Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing … you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually — mostly — the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.”

“All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.”

“You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.”

“If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.”

“Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.”

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”