"What do you love?"

You either loved "The English Patient" or you didn't.

What do you love?

What do I love?

Say everything.

Water — fish in it — and hedgehogs, I love hedgehogs. Marmite — I'm addicted, and baths, but not with other people! Islands — and your handwriting. I could go on all day.

Go on all day.

My husband.

And what do you hate most?

A lie. And what do you hate most?

Ownership — or being owned. When you leave, you should forget me.

The director Anthony Minghella has died of a hemorrhage after surgery on a growth on his neck. He was only 54.