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

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

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.

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

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

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

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