Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.