I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I've seen it.

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.

Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.

You cannot pray them out of hell.