In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.