Famous people are above the law.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.

Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . . . by cosmetic surgeons.

Daniel Day-Lewis would play me as a baby. He can do anything. Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt are fighting out for me now. And Meryl Streep will play me after the sex change. I haven't told you about that, have I?

When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.