Beyond that, editing an anthology gives me a chance to find a few new readers for my colleagues’ excellent work.

Email. Or call a good friend. Reading this reminds me that I should instead read poetry. Or write.

I’m passionate about all the stories we’re developing, but the one I’m most excited about right now is Animal Farm. I’ve wanted to make a performance capture adaptation of this book for a long time now, and it’s so exciting to see this become a reality.

I used to love writing poems. Before I was with Coleen, just normal poems

Being hit on the head with a brick, and like a bowl of hearty soup.

Anything new that’s got chemicals involved and radically alters your body, I’m not a fan. We should just love ourselves in whatever shape we are. Also, what about the poor people with diabetes who can’t get it now because all these fucking actors are shooting up?

I do take a break, but I’ve also got – right now, I’m writing another book, another memoir [a follow-up to his bestselling book Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir], so even though I’m on a break technically, I’ve got that. I’ve got a production company so things are always rolling. I’m always spinning a lot of plates.

Try to be the same as everybody else.

It’s a gut thing. There’s no rhyme or reason to it.

I once spent a summer doing a puppet show in kindergartens around the Shetland Islands.