I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.
Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.
Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.
One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.
It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.
I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.
In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.
In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.
I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.
There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.
Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.
