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.

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

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

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.

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 live quite an unsettled life.

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