During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

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

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

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

When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a way of giving regular support - and enjoying delicious high quality foods at the same time.

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

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