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

I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

My children are lovely. They're perfect.