My Grandmother Was A Minister As Well,

I Would Rather Five People Knew My Work And Thought It Was Good Work Than Five Million Knew Me And Were Indifferent.

Almost Every Comedy You See Is About People Making All Wrong Choices And Making All The Errors Of Judgement Possible. Good Comedy Is When It Works On This Scale. Because It Is Psychologically Very Real.

If You're Playing Someone Who's Impeded By Fear, Or Shyness, Or Has Whatever Dysfunction Your Character Might Have, You Have To Achieve The Dysfunction First, Imaginatively, In Order To Play Someone Who Is Trying To Negotiate Their Way Out Of It.

I Do Think A Good Story In A Novel Is Fair Game And There's Nothing Wrong With Adapting That. It Sometimes Gets A Bit Facile Where They Think: "let's Get The Next Best-seller And See If We Can Turn It Into A Film."

I Think England Has Served Me Very Well. I Like Living In London For The Reasons I Gave. I Have Absolutely No Intentions Of Cutting Those Ties. There Is Absolutely No Reason To Do So. Certainly Not, So That I Can Have A Swimming Pool And A Palm Tree.