People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.

In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.