The fiction just takes its time. It's no hurry. I can't write it faster or slower than I have; it's like you're a sedimentary rock that's just gathering all these layers and swimming around.

AUTHOR ARUNDHATI ROY on taking 20 years to write her second novel, The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness

The coolest female directors I've ever worked with are such compulsive freaks. The female artists who do the best work, they're just so focused that nothing is going to get in their way.

ACTRESS KRISTEN STEWART, who has directed her first film, Come Swim

People will do impressions for me of various characters that I've played in supermarkets, but (that) doesn't stop me doing my shopping.

ACTOR ANDY SERKIS, known for his motion capture work on the Lord Of The Rings films