If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".