Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Finding some quiet time in your life I think is hugely important.

I think every student needs access to technology and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator or as an investor or a board member I just find that hugely satisfying.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts and when it is represented in the media in film in particular it is presented as something that is really a special event whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

I've always wanted to work with Blair and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

I have a great relationship with animals and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world it's hugely different.

Music is hugely important to me.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

I'm a student of world religion so to me it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow gradual process so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues because they aren't sexy. I mean cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still over the past decade its audience has hugely grown and that's irked those outside the art world who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.