I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.