Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.