I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.
After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.
This is a place where the strong often victimize the weak.
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.
You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.