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 don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

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.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.

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