We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and he said yeah, and then suddenly I had all these people who were happy to come along. We got a little bit of money from Scottish Screen to pay for it. I got so many favors because I knew people in the business. I was in a remarkably good position. I got so many favors from people. I got the Monty Python technical people.