Typical day: Doing guest appearances before 8 a.m. for radio or Canada AM. “Then to the hotel, to do 20 to 25 interviews, and shoot one of our shows. I go home at 9 p.m. and pop in a film screener.”

Uniform: “I have a Jay Gatsby obsession with shirts, and I have mine custom made, one a day for the festival.”

Diet: Sweaty cheese cubes and room temperature cold cuts from the hotel hospitality suite.

Crisis: “Keeping Michael Caine waiting for about 20 minutes while I was interviewing an actress who was complaining about her hair, her makeup, and inspecting herself in the monitor. I was horrified because it’s Sir Michael Caine.”

Proudest of: “A 45-minute interview with Francis Ford Coppola. He was honest, upfront—it was the kind of interview you don’t get anymore.”

Festival moment: Colin Farrell told me he fell asleep with the television on, and when he woke up, the first thing he saw on the TV was my face. So he was telling people he woke up with me. That was good for my cachet at the festival.”