“The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.”

Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist

Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist. He is known for playing the twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who from 2013 to 2017, and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It from 2005 to 2012. He also received four British Academy Television Award nominations for The Thick of It, and won Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. Alongside his acting, he has worked as a director and musician.