Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

I lead a very boring life.

Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.