Tension Is Wonderful For Making People Laugh.

England Is A Fairly Envious Little Country And It's Embodied In The Press. They Don't Like Anyone Being More Distinguished Than They Are.

Filming Takes A Lot Out Of You. It Really Does. It's Immensely Demanding, And You Have To Put The Rest Of Your Life In The Icebox Until You Do Your Final Shot.

A Lot Of Humour Is About Just Enjoying Life And Spontaneity And Because You Make A Joke That Puts Somebody Down - We're Always Teasing Each Other. It's With Affection. It's Nasty Teasing That We - Not All Teasing; Nasty Teasing You Cut Out.

Would You Take A Billion Dollars, If As Part Of The Deal The Earth Were Made Uninhabitable A Year After Your Death? ... Well, Of Course Not; You Care About Your Friends, Above All Your Children, Any Grandchildren. But ... What If The Deal Calls For The Planet To Be Poisoned A Thousand Years Later? We Feel Strong Obligations To Generations In The Near Future - Should We Not Feel The Same Way About Our Children's Great-grandchildren And Generations Beyond Them?

The One Thing I Remember About Christmas Was That My Father Used To Take Me Out In A Boat About Ten Miles Offshore On Christmas Day, And I Used To Have To Swim Back. Extraordinary. It Was A Ritual. Mind You, That Wasn't The Hard Part. The Difficult Bit Was Getting Out Of The Sack.