Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.