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

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

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

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.