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

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

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.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.