I've participated in the hiring of maybe 5,000-plus people in my life. So I take it very seriously. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut.

I think it was a combination of feeling and judgment. I happened to be that sort of person that enjoyed making out plans, but I also enjoy changing plans. On an expedition, although I may start out with a detailed plan, I’m prepared to change it at any moment and completely redo it. So our expeditions turned out to be very adaptable ones. We achieved the final objectives just the same as many other expeditions, but maybe we had more fun in the process because it seemed something we could vary. We still carried on to achieve our major objectives.

No. You don't have to have rules. If you have rules—you know in cinema you have to be very pragmatic.

What I’ve really learned in my 43 years is that the body does not lie; the body actually tells you what’s right and wrong. If you get a sinking feeling in your stomach or a heavy heart about something, you shouldn’t do it; and if you get a lifting, light feeling in your body, you should.

I am being careful not to clutter my life with career administration so I can keep the focus on the acting.

When Adèle walked down the road at the end of the film Blue Is The Warmest Colour.

A panic attack on stage during The Importance Of Being Earnest. Well, it felt like death.

I was a dishwasher in Paris and a hospital orderly in London. But I did anything that was going.

My mum beautifully embraced and encouraged the unpredictability of my wayward career.

There’s been a lot of stuff that I turned down.