My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it’s loosely based on my father’s childhood in an orphanage.

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone’s true character is revealed.

‘Motorcycle Diaries’ had the best costumes – that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It’s all for the kids.

I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.

Nothing is as effective as spectacular real-life cases – successful or otherwise – in persuading people.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.