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

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?