And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.