Film is a wonderful thing and it can be so many different things. I don't want to turn my back on any of the different ways movies can be. I love the movies. I love going to the films. I like very serious films, I love foreign films, and I love big, fun movies - as long as they're well made and they've got good scripts. That's the most important thing.

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

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