The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

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.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

My marriage has worked because I am not around much.