It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

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

Successful films are very dangerous things.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.