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

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

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.