I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.