The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.