It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?

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

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

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.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.