I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

Sometimes beauty can be a trap.

I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to hear Led Zeppelin, and sometimes you want to hear Stravinsky. It just depends.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.