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

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.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

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

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

Movies make you immortal and ageless.