It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.

When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.

For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!

There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.

I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.

It's wonderful to actually have an opportunity to get real and show how complicated and fascinating sex is.

In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

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

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

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