I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It's so unsexual and so liberating.

What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.