I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.