Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

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.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.