I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.