An ideal reader is someone who doesn't know what on Earth you've been doing, who will look at it with absolute freshness and go, 'Oh, so that's what you've been up to.'

I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

If an asteroid is found to be at an impact trajectory with Earth you will have many decades of notice. And it turns out that you only need to change its velocity by a very small amount in order to prevent a collision.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.

It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.