My body is a baby machine.

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.