Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.