I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

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.

I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

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

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.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.