I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think.

This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.