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

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

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

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.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

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