Kevin McCloud

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.