I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!

I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? You think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And it's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you;re not funny then you're not...anything

When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.