I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.

I'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way. We don't spend our days in the same way because I don't necessarily enjoy the same things she likes to do.

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.