I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.