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

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

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.

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?'

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

You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

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