Doing cinema is not about watching yourself

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about learning how to be able to trust someone completely; so you need to be able to think you can trust them. But that doesn't mean you can't have extraordinary feelings for other people and not feel guilty about them, but not necessarily go and wreck marriages and consummate, and you don't have to do all that.

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't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

You become more and more charged with your life and with a life that you're observing. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. I'm much more tolerant with others and with myself. I'm not in rebellion all the time, I'm not angry so much. But all those feelings are really useful [when you're young] because they fire us, as long as they don't get out of control.

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.