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I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

I learned through experience that it doesn't work for me to talk about my personal life. I've had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it.

I'm used to people talking about me.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

I enjoy talking to people about what I do - about films, music, directors, and art. It's very strange, having to talk about yourself.