I think Woody Allen is pretty much of a genius. I'm thinking of filmmakers every century or two, but I've never had the luck to meet them. People who create their absolutely own world and are totally inimitable.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

Sometimes I go, “What am I doing with my life?” But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, “You’ve made such a difference to my confidence.” And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I’m crap at responding.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.