I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

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

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

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

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