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" There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent. "

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" Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. "

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" There's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right. "

" I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown. "

" I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important. "

" I insist to this day that if you read the screenplay to 'The Queen,' it leaves you in no doubt that we considered her an isolated, out-of-touch, cold, emotionally inaccessible, overprivileged, deluded woman, heading an institution that should immediately be dismantled in any free and fair society. "

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" You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience. "

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" I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting. "

" People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions. "

" Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them. "

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" In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies. "

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" I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it. "

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" Most leading actresses have this energy, this 'Look at me. Here I am.' They're powerful; they're beautiful. "

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" I don't want to become too self-conscious - it's why I never read reviews, even the good ones. "

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" The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do. "

" There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure. "