Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

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.

The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food.

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.