It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

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

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.

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

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.