I think there was a petition online to get me involved in Doctor Who. Im not a Doctor Who fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

I don't like crowds or attention.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend.

Your life is your story, so make choices that will write it the way you want it to be written

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

Next step: take the veil off

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.