I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. But in order to do that, we have to slice away at our egos and try to get them down to a manageable size, and then still work some practiced light meditation. So real religion is about reducing our egos, whereas all the churches are interested in is egotistical activities, like getting as many members and raising as much money and becoming as important and high-profile and influential as possible.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?