If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.