I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

I've seen the Pokémon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.