Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC, ' and you see their eyes just glaze over.

When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.

I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.

If love is blind

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.