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

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

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

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

I've seen the Pokémon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.