If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.