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.

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

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

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

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

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.

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