The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

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.

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

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

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