If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.