An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.

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.

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.

I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

It's easy to get bogged down in bad news.