My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

I formed Humble Pie when I was only 18. We were one of the first 'supergroups,' with Steve Marriott of The Small Faces on guitar and Greg Ridley of Spooky Tooth on bass. With Humble Pie, I tasted American success for the first time.

Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings.