When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking one's clothes off all the more difficult.

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly.

What I feel personally and what I can act are two different things. Maybe one of the great pleasures of my job is being able to inhabit worlds that you are never going to inhabit personally.