It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.

It's whether they have a vision and whether they're able to communicate it. The best director is just someone who gets over-excited about doing it - they don't even have to know much about camera or acting.

I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.

It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.

Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.