I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

I was terrible at school.

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

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

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

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

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