If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.