The Thrill I Got Discovering Buster Keaton

You Go In And Meet The Head Of Bbc One And Get An Assurance About Not Dumbing Down. And Then, Of Course A Few Months Later, He's Been Replaced By Someone You Haven't Met.

All Humour Is Critical, You Know? You Make Stupid Jokes. I Mean, Stupidity Is An Infirmity, Isn't It?

Writing Is The Great Skill, The Creative Skill. The Acting Is More An Interpretative Skill. And The Thrill For Me Is The Moment When I Think Of Something. And Then The Challenge Is How To Get That Funny Idea To Work In Terms Of The Structure And That Kind Of Thing, Which Is - And That's What I Really Love Doing.

England Is A Fairly Envious Little Country And It's Embodied In The Press. They Don't Like Anyone Being More Distinguished Than They Are.

But Then Acting Is All About Faking. We're All Very Good At Faking Things That We Have No Competence With.