We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting Pete this is the beginning of a great adventure.

I kind of woke up one morning and was like 'Oh I see what's happening I get everything'. I woke up and was like 'I get it I'm a product.'

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write I prefer to write in the morning until midday and in the afternoon I eat.

When I wake up in the morning I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

It is a challenge with the global fame to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She's my lady-in-waiting as well.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

I'm not a morning person. I'm really not.

You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast you skip it.