You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.