...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.