I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.

Be good. Do something good.

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.