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

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.