Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!

It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.