You write your life story by the choices you make.

I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.

I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.

I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school. And often that's the greatest talent. And it very much depends on the drama school and how it's run and the teachers. It's a different thing here in America as well because so many of your great actors go to class, which is sort of we don't do in England.

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.