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.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

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

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

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.