I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

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

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.