I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.