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.

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.

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

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

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

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.