The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game otherwise she'd make mincemeat of you.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.