Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.