The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'

People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies - the way both parties could benefit.

I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I'm never affected by anything if I'm not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.