My name is actually quite a popular name in Scotland. People elsewhere always think it's far more exotic than it is. In Scotland, it's a common name.

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on the editing room floor, so it gives you a lot more room to experiment I guess. But I really enjoy doing it. I'm very comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

I always try to choose material that I would want to go and see. I don't choose movies anymore to be in that other people wouldn't want to see.

I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to orchestral and jazz. For me, the nineties were about Oasis, because I was travelling around Britain when that band exploded onto the music scene.

I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.

Family is 100 per cent my top priority.