The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.