There’s no such thing as cheap food. It can be affordable, but it can never be cheap. I think that’s something we’ve been indoctrinated by fast food culture to believe, that it can be cheap – that it can be fast, cheap, and easy. But every culture since the beginning of time has thought of food as something precious, and that’s the way I think about it. I want to give my money to the people who take care of the land, and who grow that food.

But I don’t want to repeat myself. And I realised that in America, the producer is the master of the film and the director is just a technician.

It’s easy to try to exaggerate the problems just to get more attention. So for me, it was very clear that the best way to deal with that was to do the best science that I was capable of doing.

I'm not going to be dieting or trying to lose any weight, because I want to be as strong as possible.

My own snoring.

They wanted it for its artistic value. I found that deeply moving.

He was vulnerable to all the sorts of contradictions that every human can be subject to.

Yielding to the wrong sort of melancholia.

His name is Barry Humphries but you may be more familiar with him from his character, Dame Edna, a self-styled international superstar. I’d say he’s hitting pretty close to the genius description because back in the 1950s, he asked cultural questions that others neglected to ask or even consider.

Choosing parts is based on a series of instincts and hunches