A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.

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.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

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