My worst quality is impatience.

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.