One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.