I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.

It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.