Julia Davis

My grandfather was a vicar, and there was quite a lot of churchgoing when I was growing up. It's a world that I spent a lot of time around.

My dad was a civil servant, and my mum was a secretary.

I'm sure all parents think their kids are funny, and I'm sure a lot of kids are, whether their parents are comics or not.

If I can laugh with people, it makes me feel safe with them. If I feel someone has no sense of humour, I find it really scary. I do it with the kids as well: put on stupid voices to lighten up the spirit or gee them along to do something.

I always imagine people give succinct answers. I have no prepared thoughts on what I do.

I'm quite tactful, actually. I worry about whether people are all right. With my friends, obviously, conversations are quite free and uncensored, but I would never enjoy making someone feel uncomfortable at all.

I'd love to find a lifelong female film editor as Scorsese has with Thelma Schoonmaker. I think women are probably, without generalising, sensitive to subtle things as an editor.

I'd love to do more 'Nighty Night,' but that's always down to commissions, really. It's weird as well because everyone's moved on. I don't know if I could get all those people back.

I love all Daphne du Maurier's stuff. And just enjoying period dramas, really... wanting to do something drastically different from 'Nighty Night', the chance to write very different language.

I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

All the time, I'm watching relationships.

I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me.