I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.