I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

The growth of our understanding of the world through science weakens some of the motivation which makes people believers. But that's not the same thing as saying they're incompatible. It's just that I think some of the traditional reasons for belief, going back thousands of years, are rather undermined.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.