I think I made good movies.

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

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

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.