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.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

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.

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.

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

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

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.