You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

I think I was quite lucky in that I went to an all-girls school. I was never put in an environment where I had to be the other - the woman as opposed to the man - all the way through my education. I was never made to feel that way at home.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.