I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.

Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested in being in an art installation to be honest. I'm interested in the story.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.