I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

I'm a slow starter.

I'm always forming bands.

I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.

I'm not very good at strategizing.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

I'm very lucky.

I've always been a narcissist.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

My parents were incredibly inclusive.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.