I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.