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

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

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!

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

If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"