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

Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

I was terrible at school.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

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.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.