I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.