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

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

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.