If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

At the moment there are 1 in 8 people who have no access to clear drinking water, about a billion people worldwide, which can make you feel quite overwhelmed.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.