Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

A good piece of art raises questions.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

There's going to be a new gem in Hollywood, it's called Agron

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.