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.

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

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

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.

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.