I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.