We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.