I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

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

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.