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.

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.

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

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

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

War makes early risers of us all.