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?"

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

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.

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

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

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like men in war and dealing with their masculinity in conflict. I just think we've exhausted the landscape.