You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

When in doubt, resort to animation.