Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

There are very specific demands, though, in television, and you notice the budget constrictions. It's the time constraint and a purse constraint more than anything else that you notice. But the ambition of the writing and, hopefully, the delivery of it gets better and better because we want to outdo ourselves to keep ahead of a very expectant and hungry public.

I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

It's the same thing, I think, whether it's breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.