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

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

My body is a baby machine.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.

Films are just consumables.

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

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