When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.
I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.
I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.
When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.
Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.
Movies, more than anything I can think of, are a great escape from reality. My reality, in particular, needs escaping.
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.
