If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

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 can be as contrary as I choose.

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

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

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.