America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.