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

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

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him."

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

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

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.