In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

The only real failure is the failure to try.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.