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

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.

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

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.

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?

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

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

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

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