But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

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