If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

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.

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

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

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.