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

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

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.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

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.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.