When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

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.

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

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