It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

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

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