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.

Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

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

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

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

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?