If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

The cast is so big that you really don't work very much.

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.