Kevin Jackson

1. When were you happiest?

Shooting the promo film for Bite, last weekend. (This is true.)

2. What is your principal defect?

Sloth.

3. What makes you depressed?

My sloth. Motiveless malignacy. People who rubbish the NHS. The decline of civility.

4. What do you most dislike about your appearance?

Gross obesity.

5. What is your favourite word?

Grudge.

6. What is your most unappealing habit?

Snoring.

7. What is your favourite smell?

Garlic frying in olive oil.

8. What is your guiltiest pleasure?

Rubbish television.

9. Who are your favourite writers?

Samuel Johnson, Samuel Coleridge, Samuel Beckett. Dante, Shakespeare, Baudelaire. And Geoffrey Willans.

10. What is the worst job you've done?

Working in a sawmill.

11. When did you last cry, and why?

Watching Humphrey Jennings's film A Diary for Timothy (for about the hundredth time), two weeks ago.

12. What do you most value in you friends?

Fanatical loyalty.

13. What gift would you most like to possess?

Omniscience.

14. What was your most embarrassing moment?

It involved a rubber ring, a group of Jewish pals in Nashville, and my digestive tract. That's all you're getting. It really was embarrassing, though.

15. What is your most treasured possession?

A bronze skull.

16. What is the worst thing anyone's said to you?

'Fatty'.

17. If you could edit your past, what would you change?

I would have learned the piano from the earliest possible age. And not been so timid.

18. If you could go back in time, where would you go?

Paris, 1922.

19. What is your greatest fear?

At three in the morning: Hell.

20. What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

Idiots can be dangerous, too.

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