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

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.