One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.