I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.