Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Come a crisis, we want other people.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.