I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.