In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.