For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

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.

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

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.