Trying to film a movie on a diet is hard enough, I can't imagine how it would be on drugs.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

I didn't drop out of school, I placed out of it. I took correspondence courses and ended up graduating early. I did everything I could to get the hell out of there.

I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as good as the book'? It's often true because nothing competes with your own imagination. When you're reading a book and you imagine something in your head, nothing's going to compete with that.

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way to explore your own identity and make something of it.