Paddy Considine

"I'd like to master some of the basics before I move on to super powers. I can't even put up shelving." Paddy Considine

Adam Horovitz

"I love New York. As I speak I see the old lady across the street staring out her window. So the people are still, you know, staring out their windows." Adam Horovitz

Chris O'Dowd

"I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever." Chris O'Dowd

Ahmir Thompson (Questlove)

"If you tell me to take an orchestra and do an impressionist turn-of-the-century Debussy or Stravinsky, and to incorporate some jazz and to do a hip-hop rhyme in 7/8 meter and to do it in 14 minutes, I can do that in my sleep. But if you tell me to colour within the lines and produce a simple, effective three-minute pop song, you would discover me nine hours later on the floor with my hair out of my head and blood on the floor.” Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Truman Capote

"I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping. As the afternoon wears on, I shift from coffee to mint tea to sherry to martinis." Truman Capote

Paul McGann

"My mum recently reminded me that I used to drink Liebfraumilch. I had to ask her to shut up." Paul McGann

Milan Kundera

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.” Milan Kundera

Imtiaz Ali

"I have been made by accidents and failures. Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have." Imtiaz Ali 

Michael Imperioli

"People always seem a bit disappointed I'm not more like Christopher." Michael Imperioli

Richard Linklater

"Daydreaming is a productive activity." Richard Linklater.



Nick Hornby

"I wouldn't call it depression. It's just a sort of strain of English miserablism, where you know everything is crap and everyone who pretends it isn't is kidding themselves. Yeah, this is the best it will ever get." Nick Hornby

Andrew Bird

"I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that." Andrew Bird

Aki Kaurismaki

"I might look like a cool guy, but I am most sentimental. I care about others, not too much about myself." Aki Kaurismaki

Alex Kapranos

"Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'." Alex Kapranos.