Iconoclastic Quotes

I`ve always felt as an outsider. I`ve been rebellious against any iconoclastic thing. It`s true about the industry, but also about society as a whole. I don`t blame anyone, but I think that society is negative in that people are terrified to be free. I was born on the edge of the mountains in Kentucky and now although I live in Hollywood I still feel more related to nature. It`s an attitude. I have a pool, but it`s to do laps in, not a status symbol.

Mr Benn was quite iconoclastic and is probably the most remembered thing I`ve ever done. Even now, nearly 40 years after we made them, people say, `God your voice always reminds me of it`. The show had something about it which allowed it to endure. I don`t understand what it was, but it was great.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.