The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.