There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

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

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've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.

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.