I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.

My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.

I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.

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