“My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from”

“It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.”