Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

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.

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

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

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

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.