My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.

I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.

For me, it's not like I am going to look at the money the director's film has made before their film... For me, it is about working with the director whose work I have admired.

A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.