It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives

There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing

I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

I fell in love again (laughs).

Tragedy makes you grow up.

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.