My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.