I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.

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.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.