You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

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

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

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.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

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.