Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

But we did see the process develop. I remember going to the Rocket Pictures base and they had something like 40 people there, drawing. They didn't know what the characters looked like yet and I remember on the walls seeing 30 or 40 different versions of Juliet. So, it was then that I realised that someone's got to come in and make some really executive decisions.

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.