If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

I can easily say "no" to a project if the script isn't great, but when the script is good, then I start asking the other questions. Who's going to direct it? Who's the creator? Who are the actors? When are we shooting? Where is it shooting? All that kind of stuff.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

I don't tend to go out that much.

I grew up a massive Beatles fan.