I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

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

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

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

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.

I find it very difficult to do anything on my own now because people recognize me. This has never happened to me before because I haven't really done television before. But I suppose if you're in people's rooms all the time, I don't know - I was thinking the other night with people like DiCaprio and, you know, those big stars and Cate Blanchett, and you just think how did they exist? It's so difficult. And I think now it's very intrusive because of these cellphones, you know, with cameras.

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