It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.