We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.

Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning home on compassionate leave. As a result, my mother had to get work, as a nurse, and at seven the RAF put me into a boarding school and ex-orphanage called the Royal Wolverhampton School.

Subversion is what I do.