Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

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 think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.