I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.