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 just don't believe in generalisations.

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.

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.

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

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

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