I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

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

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

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.

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

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

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