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1. You can only shoot in India for three months a year, otherwise it’s very inhospitable.
2. ‘It could be better’ is the only thing that anyone should write in the margins of their own script.
3. I have a brilliant memory of being driven back to school when ‘Super Trouper’ was number one in the charts in 1980. When it came on the radio my mum just drove right past the school gates! When you’re 11 years old and meant to be going back to boarding school, that’s a great feeling.
4. As I get older, I find the things that I thought would be sorted by now aren’t. The idea of writing stuff like that for a much older generation was incredibly appealing.
5. And Cher, obviously, can never do anything other than go for it. She’s all in.
6. Richard Curtis has an encyclopedic knowledge of ABBA, which defeats even mine.
7. I just did what any writer does, tried to listen to the characters, whether they’re 18 or 80.
8. The trajectory of most movies is that you start off writing a sensitive movie about a couple in their 40’s getting divorced, and then, three years later, you look at each other on set while you’re making a film about lesbian cheerleaders. You’re like, ‘How did that happen?!’
9. I have two girls and one is now nearly a teenager — it is terrifying.
10. These are cynical times. Some of the romcoms I thought worked best in recent years were ‘500 Days of Summer,’ ‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’ and ‘Like Crazy,’ all of which reject the standard happy-ever-after formula.
11. There is a scene that I wrote with the line, ‘It’s a terrible day when a man’s daughter brings a boy home for the first time.’ I’ll never be ready for it, I would like to stop my children growing, I don’t know how to handle it.
12. The other night my daughter shouted: ‘What’s that flying out of the window? It’s the rules!’ So that’s how we roll.
13. There’s a sports saying, if you aren’t playing offense, you’re playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better but you have to aim higher and bring something else back in to the mix.
14. ‘Dancing Queen’ was the hardest to pull off, all those boats and all those people dancing around the street with boats coming around the corner.
15. It’s always tricky when someone who’s not used to it volunteers to be an extra and you want to go, ‘Listen, you’re going to be sitting there for a long time.’
16. It’s the nicest thing when you’re constantly surprised by your partner.
17. I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn’t actually happen. The paradox is that the bigger the film you write, the less likely it is to happen.
18. You can’t let movies get in the way of your life.
19. I wrote the ‘Marigold Hotel’ series and with the first one, people hated it in the U.K. but in America they really liked it.
20. The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer.