The Last Couple Of Years Have Been

One Went To School, One Wanted To Act, One Started To Act, And One's Still Acting.

Listen, I Must Be 110 By Now. Granny Is Going To Kick The Bucket At Some Point.

A Lot Of Writing About Being A Mother Is Not So Much Writing About The Kids Themselves. They Become Placeholders For The Shift That Happens When You're Suddenly In Charge Of Other People.

The Chemotherapy Was Very Peculiar, Something That Makes You Feel Much Worse Than The Cancer Itself, A Very Nasty Thing. I Used To Go To Treatment On My Own, And Nearly Everybody Else Was With Somebody. I Wouldn't Have Liked That. Why Would You Want To Make Anybody Sit In Those Places?

Alan Rickman Was Such A Terrific Actor, And That Was Such A Terrific Character That He Played. And It Was A Joy To Be With Him. We Used To Laugh Together Because We Ran Out Of Reaction Shots. They Were Always - When Everything Had Been Done And The Children Were Finished, They Would Turn The Camera Around And We'd Have To Do Various Reaction Shots Of Amazement Or Sadness And Things. We Used To Say We'd Got To About Number 200-and-something And We'd Run Out Of Knowing What To Do When The Camera Came Around On Us. But He Was A Joy.