I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

I always have bananas with me for energy.

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on TV.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.