I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.