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.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

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

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

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.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

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.