Laughter is the best creative medicine.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family - it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner; everyone knows everyone and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to sit.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

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

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'