I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.