Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to. 
People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone. 
When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.
I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.
To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.
I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff. 
One day I'm just going to say, "Good evening, I'm Alistair Cooke. Screw the plot! Watch the program. 