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If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.