The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

The world is bigger than all the parts. That's the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off kilter. And you must never let yourself off. You'll let yourself off by mistake. So you shouldn't do it consciously. You have to be above it all and just be very disciplined with it. Just be very disciplined with it.