The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

I certainly think that he [Alan Rickman] was a kind of actor who needed to grow into his maturity to realize the potential, the huge potential that he had.

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.

Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.