And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.