I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

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 wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.