When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.

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.

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

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.