When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.

Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.