I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.

They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas!

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.