Marianne Jean-Baptiste quotes:

I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

Britain is no longer totally a white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks, and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips, it's curry.

I actually like getting up to blue skies.

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad.

The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry.

I love a bit of passion.

I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.

I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to another doughnut.

With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.