Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.

I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.