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I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

I've always had loads of teddy bears.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.

But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.