Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

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

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.