I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

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 tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

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

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.