I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.

I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment.