I've never liked talking about my personal life, ever. Ever since I was 20, I've lived in a kind of public arena and there have been stalkers, blackmailers, death threats, physical violence and threats to friends of mine, colleagues of mine, to myself.

In animation, you can throw away people's defense. You can go right to the center of things, right through inside someone's heart. The characters anyway, they do represent different aspects of all of us - and put them all together, you get a human being. And so it's got a wonderful purity, a real purity that's so moving, exiting, everything.

If you behave like a regular guy, you get treated like a regular guy. You can't cut yourself off from the world. You ultimately would go crazy, wouldn't you?

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.