(On period costume posture coaching:)'We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

"Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway."

Emma Thompson

"It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly."

Emma Thompson