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.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

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

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.

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

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

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.