We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

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

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

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.

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.