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

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

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.

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

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

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.