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.

It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained; of course it was cold... But, you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.