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

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.