Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

One of the man’s major purposes is to have dominion over the earth, in the same way as God hasdominion over the universe.

Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed.

Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.

The difference between me and David Haye is that I want to be a fighter, he hates it, but he has to fight, remember that.

The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.