I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

My weak spot is that I don't like analyzing so I tend to be a bit lazy; I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.