I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.

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

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

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.

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

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.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.