I never, ever do a film and just kind of move on. I think of them as children of mine, and you don't give birth to a baby and just leave it on someone else's doorstep. You see it all the way through college.

I hear God as an audible voice.

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot more than a verbal scene.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.