Tom Conti

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

I love Hindi films.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.