Just the fact that you're working is good for you.

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?

I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions.

I understand Hitler... I sympathise with him a little bit.