Everyone gets obsessed with anti-aging but I'd rather look as good as I can at the age I am.

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.