Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.