I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

You see the button with the guy with the tray, and you push it, and he arrives with a sandwich! And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land"

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

Then you get these articles about how unhealthy life is in the city. You know; mobile phone tumours - far more likely in the city. Well you know what, so is everything else! Including sex, coffee and conversation.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.