Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

Is my job as a child, even as an adult, is my job to heal the wounds of my parents' childhoods?

The job in every re-write is to make it harder for your characters to get the thing that they need.

Well, because my films are really about how people interact with each other, and the complexity, and the nuance, and the surprise of those moments I try to create a safe enough space that allows the actors to operate from their own instincts. My direction is more suggestions, prompts or questions.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

I don't go throwing money about - if I did, I think my mum and dad would be on my back because that's not the way I've been brought up.

Some members of the ruling class are making a concerted effort to expand the wealth gap.