“Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!”

“Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!”

“I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.”

“Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.”