I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.

I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.