Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.

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

It's easy to get bogged down in bad news.

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.

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

I'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way. We don't spend our days in the same way because I don't necessarily enjoy the same things she likes to do.

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.