“I’ve made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I’d love to do theater.”

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It’s not just a physical discipline.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

There’s sort of a theory that’s going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I’ll be very happy.

Believe me, nothing is trivial.

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

I can tell you why I like different countries. Ireland – some of the funniest heckles I’ve ever gotten. And the last time I did England I did Bristol, Manchester, and then London. The whole country is just amazing to drive through.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

It’s a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

The thing I’d really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare’s Globe.

I think what’s going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

The monster London laugh at me.