Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.