If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money - money is all they think about - they're all nuts.

On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.

I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?

Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.