Piracy is our only option.

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.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

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

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

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