Emma Thompson

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.