When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.