I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Over the years I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

This week the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

Well I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very very good to me. And I believe in their products I really do. I've used them for many many years.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison so we already had a deep and loving relationship and remembered our mother at those times.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes but the idea is that at the end of the day my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet.

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago but we lost the relationship when the doctor would look people in the eye and say 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.