It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

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 never raise my voice!

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.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.