Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

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

I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.