I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.

There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

I don't know why I go to extremes.

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support