If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.

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