It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

I was amazed to go Oscar and win it. It was fantastic getting up on the stage there and looking down. I thought, "That guy looks like Steve Martin, and that guy's like Arnold Schwarzenegger." But it was Steve Martin, and it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they have this terrible kind of conveyor belt backstage - literally - where they take you to this big hangar where the world's press are gathered, and they make you stand on a stage, and they introduce you.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.