We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and that that's the way they communicate.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

I'm sure she wants revenge. I'll just try not to let that happen.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.