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 don't have technique because I never learnt any.

~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

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.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.