75 Quotes by Julian Barratt

I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it.

I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter.

The acting life can be quite scary, really.

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who are not really there.

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.

I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist.

I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera.