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.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

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.

It's great to be queen!

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.

All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.