I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

I don't look too far ahead.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

Do not Forget PAIN, You Endure in it's presence!!

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

We had President Obama on the show last night. I think the president enjoys visiting NBC because we're the only place that has lower numbers than he does.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.