I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

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

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

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 mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.