Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

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.

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.

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.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

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