I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I’m constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.
If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn’t you also be able to inhabit a character?
I’ll give you a list of a hundred ways that I’m more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they’re doing. It’s not a place where I feel I’m in unnecessary danger.
I have a theory that I really want my kids to know – the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.
I’d say I’m the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.
I’ve given no thought to moving to America at all.
We shot that in Morocco, and got out of the country at the beginning of July – and two months later came the attack on Twin Towers. The movie was then released in December, so that kind of atmosphere is not something that was unfamiliar to me.
I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there’s probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that’s a pretty common thing.
There wasn’t a moment where I got into cars. It wasn’t a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.
I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I’m a bit of a romantic.