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

You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.

I can be as contrary as I choose.

There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?