I'm a late developer.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

I was terrible at school.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.