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

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

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

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

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.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.