Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.