Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I feel quite strongly that we need a new moral lodestone if we can't rely on what is inside our own selves. Which I think, actually, is pretty reliable.

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

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.