Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.