How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of being well-preserved, but to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, still screaming, 'Whoo what a ride!

Relationships are the currency of business.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to be a pretty strong - my on problem with people who say don't talk to him.

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.

If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.