It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.

Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.

Do you want a list of what my dogs taught me? Patience, perspective, joy, loyalty, the simplicity and presence of their joy. That's a really great daily reminder, bad stuff happens, difficult stuff happens and you take them out onto the beach and you go "OK, now I see". You tell them the current political situation in the world and they go "should we go for a walk?" And you go, right, that's the correct answer.

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.