I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

I don't like crowds or attention.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend.

I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.'

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

You have to understand the teen years of any leader to understand the mechanics of their leadership.

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

I eat three meals a day and three juices a day.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I'm just happy to be working.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Boldness in itself is genius.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.