I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

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

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

I love a really good storyline.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.