In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.