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.

All those animals that were in the cages, I would spend a lot of time in those cages with the animals in-between shots, just hanging out, because I prefer animals to humans. If I get an opportunity to be with them, I'll usually take it.

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

My parents are pretty cool people.

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.