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

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.

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

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.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

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.

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