Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material..

I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Ja….

I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do so….

When somebody say no, it's a red flag to a bull to me..

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad..

As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it gets magnetically ….

I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my other brother runs a cab. I have be….

I found my friends very amusing the first time because they are funny and amusing. They really are because they're people who've got everything. They….

I just absolutely go for it when somebody says, "No, you can't have this." That's why I spent my entire life sucking off straight men. "Okay, so you ….

As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people ….

When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This ….

I know I'm part of the changing process of the way we look at things..

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary..