“I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.”

I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.

I’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.

I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there’s pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

I’d like to have a go at directing.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way – they make you look at the world in a different way.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.

They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.

Because when you go out, and you have fun.

I’m pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know – everything.

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,

I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.

From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.

Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.

Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That’s one kick-ass dragon. It’s basically a giant puppy dragon.