There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

Good for you, Ethan." That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.

The movies helped define how I should be as a person.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.