In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

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

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.