I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

I am lucky to be in a profession that is not age dependent.

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.