There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.

We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.