There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologise specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested.

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them, if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.