I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

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.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.