"I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them."

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things."

"I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web."

"The man who doesn't want anything is invincible."

"I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story."

"Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do."

"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."

"I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters."