"I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car."

"I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them."

"I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time."

"I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world."

"Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action."

"Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously."

"A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage."

"There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small."