I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

Without the ice, the earth will fall

There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

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