It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything.

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.