One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

I've mellowed quite quickly.

It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

If we use less, if we consume less, we're going to have more

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

I take every job on its merits.