I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.

Doris Day was the perfect woman.

I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.

Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.

In the film industry, we work more on the basis of good faith and verbal commitments rather than legalities.

What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.

A lot of the reason I wanted to become an entrepreneur and avoid working for others is that you get to create the world you want to live in and the company you want to work for, and I've loved that. It's a part of entrepreneurship that women should really embrace.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.