My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.