My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.