The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained; of course it was cold... But, you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

I think he [Leonardo DiCaprio] is a terrific actor. And I've - I've been rooting and voting for him since "Gilbert Grape." I thought he was so amazing in that one. He was a young man, really very young boy.