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.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

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

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.

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