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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.