I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs..

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes..

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them..

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room..

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything..

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer..

My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as ….

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life..

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitt….

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about….

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I h….

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try….

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell..

Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it..

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden..

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands..

I live in jeans and own a lot of them. I'm much more comfortable in trousers and T-shirts, and I don't often wear dresses..

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels..

My best feature is my hair..

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it..

I cry in movies a lot, and over books..