You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

Liverpool will always be my home.

I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.