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

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

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

I feel now like a hinge between generations, which is strange. It just happened recently. I think it's because my daughter is so much like me at her age. I feel like I'm reliving my own mother's experience of raising me.

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

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.