As we age, there are different things that become important to us and that means that different aspects of our character come to the forefront; certain aspects recede. And that's fun. It would be shitty to have to imitate myself.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that.

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.