There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge, great Neanderthal thing, it's hard to create that little space of peace, and calm, and creativity, and ease. That's what you want the director to create for you, so that when you walk on the set, you forget all of that, and the fact that it's costing gazillions of dollars a second.

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.

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.