These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience.

I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.