I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.