I never raise my voice!

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

I never raise my voice!

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.

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