Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm not going to act old, Penelope. I'll just be myself.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

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

There are responsibilities which are parental responsibilities and those are the types of things we prepare the next generation for, but no one tells you how to answer the kids' questions in the backseat of the car when they want to know what the world is for or where they came from or why any of this is happening.

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.