Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

I think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands.

We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say 'I did that.'