In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was.

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.