Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.

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.

The fact in acting, you can tap into your darkest moments in life to your lightest moments. And people will watch it, and appreciate it, and even engage with you because of that. That's the greatest job one Earth.