Eating breakfast in bed: more usually lunch given the time she's taken to play catch-up and banish herbleariness. This, of course, depends on your ability to open a packet of bacon with a knife without putting yourself in A&E with half a finger missing or setting off the high-pitched squeal of smoke ' Day and woe betide any man who forgets this.

As a director I was interested in highlighting the communal while also punctuating thebleariness of "real" with fiction.

I felt as though the ordinarybleariness of life had suddenly refocused, and I had glimpsed the beauty of the tiny things of life: a drop of sky, a well-cooked pea.