Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

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