If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.