A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.

I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has been with men. They exposed me to things that I wasn't aware of. I learned from all the guys.

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

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

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

Film is a visceral experience so I think a good war movie is a valuable tool for making us understand what our military goes through, what the issues are, the good and bad sides of war and what we're asking our military to do.