Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.