Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.