When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.

I hardly even leave my own house.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.