Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

You don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a mechanism that doesn't work. But allowing them to come back in little by little, those memories, you can begin to be quite comfortable with them, and it's even nice to have that as part of the map of your life.

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.